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• I wanted to right my own apps for a long time but never found the time to actually do it. Now that I have plenty of free time I'm going to try and right one

• If you want to go the acual site to see what you need it is here Installing Anroid IDE
• These are steps for installing it into a Linux environment (I'm using Debian so my steps might be a little different)
• Eclipse

• version 6 of java is recommended so in order to install it go to a command line and type

root@debian:/home/brett# apt-get install openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jdk
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
openjdk-6-jdk is already the newest version.
openjdk-6-jre is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

• I already have these packages installed but if you haven't it should only take about 15 minutes to install
• You now have to download the android sdk from Developer Kit
• now you have to untar it and copy it to /usr/local
• there might be some permission issues with this so you now have to run

user@debian:/usr/local$ sudo chown -R user /usr/local/android-sdk-linux

• this will fix any permission errors
• now you have to add /usr/local/android-sdk-linux/tools to your path enviroment

• to do this type sudo vi /etc/profile and change

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"

• to

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/andriod-sdk-linux/tools"

• After rebooting the system now go to the command line and type android to bring up the sdk manager
• I clicked on all of the Android 4.* buttons like this
• 
• After that click on install and wait… it takes a while

• Now install eclipse if not already installed then click on help→install new software
• then click add it the right corner
• input ADT PLUGIN for the name and https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/ for the repository link
• Then run thought next..next…next…finish if you get a security warning just click on ok
• now restart eclipse and you should see a android icon in the hot bar
• Now you can get started on making android apps