Android Development Toolkit

The Android Software Development Kit (Android SDK) provides the API libraries and developer tools necessary to build, test, and debug apps for Android for developers. The libraries and tools together are called Android Development Tools or ADT. Google provides an ADT Bundle that includes Android SDK components and a version of the Eclipse IDE with built-in ADT (Android Developer Tools). The Bundle requires little effort to install and configure and can quickly allow a developer to begin Android development.

Google provides the information of the ADT Bundle on their site, from which you can download the Bundle. For fast download on VSU campus, we provide a local download below,

The license agreement of the above download can be found on Google’s website. Please make sure that you read and understand the license agreement if you choose to download from the local copies.

Configuration on VSU Computers

VSU’s Windows desktop computers has a specific configuration that has resulted that Android Virtual Devices failed to launch. The specific configuration is that in the registrar key entry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders, the “Desktop” key’s value is set to point to VSUTech user’s desktop. To address this issue, we need to change the key’s value to point to your desktop using “regedit“.