Today, I feel like myself to create Android apps for mobile touching. Honestly, I'm very very new to mobile apps especially Android. That's why I don't know how to create andriod app and which IDE is suitable for it either. Well, I've already installed Eclipse in my pc and wanna know whether I can create Android apps with Eclipse or not. Well, I got some information about creating Android apps with Eclipse. For me, it's kinda complicated and have tried two times to complete installation. Ok, i'll mention simple ways to create Android apps with Eclipse.

1) Download Android SDK under following link

http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

Download Android SDK

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2) Unzip Android SDK and install SDK manager.

You need to install all updates to your PC because those are needed when you want to review some existing Adroid apps.

Install Android

(Click to orginal image) 3) Download Eclipse Galileo under following link

http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/release/galileo/r

Please note that Android supports only RCP or Java version of eclipse. Don't ask me why. Because, neither do I.

4) Install Android plugin in Eclipse. Open Eclipse. Then select Help > Install New Software. After that Available Software dialog, click Add. In the Add Site dialog, enter "Android Plugin" in name fiend and https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/ in location field. Then, install as usual.

Install Android plugin in Eclipse

(Click to orginal image) 5) Install ADT plugin into eclipse After installing Android plugin into eclipse, we need to install ADT plugin for Android apps development. Open Eclipse again and click onWindow > Preferences. Select Android from the left panel. For SDK location, you need to browse "the download Android SDK" and click Apply. Then, press OK. (if you missed step (2), you can't develop Android apps with Eclipse. For me, I need to install two times because of this step 2) After pressing "Apply", all Andriod updates wil be populated.

Install Android ADT

(Click to orginal image) After all, click New > Project > Android to create new Android apps with eclipse. How?

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