A quick start guide to installing the Android Software Development Kit along with your chosen development environments.

Android development starts with the Android SDK - a collection of tools needed to build any kind of Android app. Discover what's included and how to use it.

The Android R Preview SDK just appeared in the SDK Manager, meaning there's likely some new stuff to poke through. As you can see from the screenshot above, Android R revision 1 is now in the list.

Android Studio is a developer kit that you can use to create and troubleshoot your own Android apps. We'll go over what it is (and what it isn't).

Visit the Android Developers site to download and install the Android System Development Kit, or SDK (see Resources). To install the SDK, double-click the downloaded archive to extract the contents.

Here is the gist: Download and install the Android SDK, which gives you access to the emulator. Android developers should already have this step done.