Overview
This tutorial will teach us about the Android Software Development Kit (Android SDK). The Android SDK is a development platform that provides all the necessary mobile development tools for the Android operating system.
Android Software Development Kit
The Android SDK (Software Development Kit) is a mobile application development framework that developers can create mobile applications for the Android platform. The Android SDK provides the tools and libraries to develop applications that can run on Android-based devices.
Android Software Development Kit is required to develop an Android mobile application. The SDK comes with an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that has a set of integrated tools like:
- Code Editor
- Compiler
- Debugger
- Dalvik VM
- Other tools are required to develop, debug, test, and run mobile applications.
The emulator is a virtual device that is used to test or run a mobile application without the availability of a physical mobile device.
Android SDK is cross-platform and can be installed on almost all popular operating systems like
- Windows
- Mac OS
- and Linux.
When developing Android-based applications, developers use Java to code the applications. However, it’s important to understand that Android devices do not run Java byte code but rather run Dalvik VM byte code. Android SDK helps to convert Java byte code to the Dalvik VM byte code. Although both J2ME and Android use execution environments that are derivatives of JVM, applications developed using J2ME cannot be run directly on Android mobile phones.
Install Android SDK