Sunday, September 29, 2013

Initial Setup of Android Developer Tools (ADT) and Eclipse

I downloaded ADT from Google which comes with Eclipse.  However, when I tried to run Eclipse for the first time, I got a nasty little error about not finding the JRE.  JRE stands for Java Runtime Environment, and as far as I can tell, it must be the equivalent of the .net framework.  I went into Control Panel and uninstalled anything in there that said Java.  Then I put Java JRE into Google and downloaded Java JRE 7 for Windows 64 bit from an Oracle website.  Once I installed it, I found the files in the Program Files\Java\jre7 folder.  I copied this into the AndroidSDK folder where the eclipse.exe file is.  I then renamed it from jre7 to just jre and voila, it worked.  The nasty error message did say where it was looking for the jre, so thats how I knew where to put the files.

What a start.  Hopefully, everything about android development isn't this weird.

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