I want to develop applications on Android. Can the SDK be installed on Mac?
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Yes. Android development primarily takes place with Java and in Eclipse (which itself runs on Java) and therefore is cross platform.
- Download the SDK for Mac
- Following the installation instructions
This all-in-one post might be easier to follow for you.
If you run into problems a simple Google or post in their Google Group will usually yeild a result.
Jake Wharton
2010-04-20 02:11:32
Consider using NetBeans instead of Eclipse for Android development on Macintosh: http://blog.screencustoms.com/post/1229245596/a-great-relief-in-developing-android-apps.
Aleks N.
2010-10-02 17:45:19
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The SDK for the Mac is available at http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html.
John Percival Hackworth
2010-04-20 02:13:05
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You might also check out http://www.appcelerator.com/ - They have a cross platform environment that lets you develop Air, Android, iPhone and iPad.
txmail
2010-04-20 02:41:02
@txmail: cross platform development tools are now explicitly forbidden by Apple. In other word: if they catch you writing an app for the iPhone by using anything that is written in Objective-C (and appcelerator is using Java-to-Objective-C conversion) they can revoke your app and your developer rights. Not my call. It sucks. But appcelerator is precisely the kind of developer app Apple doesn't want to hear about. You **must** write your app in Objective-C and you **cannot** use cross-platform tools.
Webinator
2010-04-20 03:03:50
Wow what a crock of ....; glad I have not gotten to the iPhone development part of the app I am working on yet. Thanks for the heads up.
txmail
2010-04-21 01:17:48
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Yes, the installation is even easier on a Mac (partly, because the Mac already comes with the right jdk, so that avoids the entire confusion between the jdk and the jre that windows users keep on having, and that also avoids the linux problem of replacing the openjdk with the sunjdk).
Stephan Branczyk
2010-04-20 03:39:04