the meaning of friday changes with time but joy it causes remain the same

http://dw2blog.com/2009/10/16/beyond-symbian/

But this sudden urge came to this past sunday that I should do something on this android phone , so I decided to setup my laptop to run the same

Searching google made me realized the blogs and help posts are written in the such manner as they can be understood by techincal person and not the Managers, there brain doesn’t work the same way .
So I went about doing the same , but first I needed mild current of 5 amps to brain cells to respond to my wish of thinking and doing something

After that it was smooth sailing , below is extract and steps

Android applications, like most mobile phone applications, are developed in a host-target development environment. In other words, you develop your application on a host computer (where resources are abundant), and download it to a target mobile phone for testing and ultimate use.

To write your own Android mobile phone applications, you’ll first need to collect the required tools and set up an appropriate development environment on your PC .

In this post we’ll collect the tools you need, download them and install them on your computer, and write a sample application that will let you get the feel of writing and running Android applications on an emulator. Windows
development environments,

The Android SDK supports several different development environments. I will focus on using Eclipse, because it is the best integrated with the SDK, and, hey, it’s free. No matter which operating system you are using, you will need essentially the same set of tools:

* The Eclipse Integrated Development Environment

* Sun’s Java Development Kit (JDK)

* The Android Software Developer’s Kit (SDK)

* A special Eclipse plug in: the Android Developer Tool (ADT)

Creating an Android Development Environment
Installation of the SDK is substantially the same for any of the operating systems, and most of this description applies equally to all of them..

1. Install Eclipse: The Android SDK requires Eclipse version 3.2 or 3.3 (also known as Europa) or later. If you do not have that version of Eclipse installed yet, you will need to go to http://www.eclipse.org/downloads to get it, and you might as well get version 3.3 since that package includes the required plugins mentioned in the next step. You want the version of the Eclipse IDE labeled “Eclipse IDE for Java Developers,” and obviously you want the version for your operating system. Eclipse will ask you to select a mirror site, and will then start the download.

Windows (XP)

The Eclipse download comes as a big ZIP file that you install by extracting the files to your favorite directory. For this book, we’ll assume that you extracted to C:/eclipse. Eclipse is now installed, but it will not show up in your Start menu of applications. You may want to create a Windows shortcut for C:/eclipse/eclipse.exe and place it on your desktop, in your Start menu, or someplace else where you can easily find it.

2. Install JDK: The Android SDK requires JDK version 5 or version 6. If you already have one of those installed, skip to the next step. If the JDK is not installed, go to http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads and you’ll see a list of Java products to download. The one you want is JDK 6 Update n for your operating system, where n is 6 at the time this is written.

Windows (XP)

Select the distribution for “Windows Offline Installation, Multi-language.”

Read, review, and accept Sun’s license for the JDK. (The license has become very permissive, but if you have a problem with it, alternative free JDKs exist.)

Once the download is complete, a dialog box will ask you whether you want to run the downloaded executable. When you select “Run,” the Windows Installer will start up and lead you through a dialog to install the JDK on your PC.

3. Install Android SDK: This is where you’d start if you already have the right versions of Eclipse and the JDK loaded. The Android SDK is distributed through Google’s code site, http://code.google.com/android/download.html. You will need to read, review and accept the terms of the license to proceed. When you get to the list of downloads, you will see a table of distributions. Select the one for your operating system (XP and Vista use the same distribution). The package (file) names include the release number. For example, as this is written, the latest version of the SDK is 1.0_r1, so the file you would download for Windows is named android-sdk-windows-1.0_r1.zip.

The file you download is another archive file, as with Eclipse: a ZIP file on Windows,Do the same thing as for Eclipse: extract the archive file to a directory where you want to install Android, and make a note of the directory name (you’ll need it in ). The extraction will create a directory tree containing a bunch of sub-directories, including one called tools.

4. Update Environment Variables: To make it easier to launch the Android tools, add the tools directory to your path.

5. Install the Android Plugin (ADT): Throughout this book, we will make use of the Android Development Tool plugin that Google supplies for use in building Android applications. The plugin is installed in much the same way as any other Eclipse plugin:

Start Eclipse, if it’s not already running. And download https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse

An Integrated Development Environment based on Eclipse, arguably the premier IDE for Java development. Eclipse itself brings many valuable development features. Google and OHA have taken advantage of Eclipse’s extensibility to provide features customized for Android, including debugging capabilities that are tuned to the needs of mobile application developers like you.

A Java development environment and Dalvik virtual machine that build on Sun’s JDK foundation to provide a very sophisticated programming environment for your applications.

A complete mobile phone emulator that allows you to test your applications without having to download them to a target mobile phone. The emulator includes features for testing your application under different mobile phone communication conditions (fading, dropped connections, etc.).