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<h1 style="margin-top:0">Get the Android SDK</h1>

  
<p>The Android SDK provides you the API libraries and developer tools necessary to build, test,
  and debug apps for Android.</p>

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To get the latest Android SDK, please visit the web site at <a
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  <h1 style="margin-top:0">Get ready to code!</h1>
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  <p>You'll soon be developing apps for Android! Once the download completes,
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<h3>Operating Systems</h3>
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  <li>Windows XP (32-bit), Vista (32- or 64-bit), or Windows 7 (32- or 64-bit)</li>
  <li>Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later (x86 only)</li>
  <li>Linux (tested on Ubuntu Linux, Lucid Lynx)
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      <li>GNU C Library (glibc) 2.7 or later is required.</li>
      <li>On Ubuntu Linux, version 8.04 or later is required.</li>
      <li>64-bit distributions must be capable of running 32-bit applications.</li>
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<h3>Eclipse IDE</h3>
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      <li>Eclipse 3.6.2 (Helios) or greater
<p class="note"><strong>Note:</strong> Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) is no longer
supported with the latest version of ADT.</p></li>
      <li>Eclipse <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/jdt">JDT</a> plugin (included
in most Eclipse IDE packages) </li>
      <li><a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html">JDK 6</a>
        (JRE alone is not sufficient)</li>
      <li><a href="{@docRoot}tools/sdk/eclipse-adt.html">Android Development Tools plugin</a>
(recommended)</li>
      <li><strong>Not</strong> compatible with Gnu Compiler for Java (gcj)</li>
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<h3>Other development environments</h3>
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      <li><a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html">JDK 6</a>
        (JRE alone is not sufficient)</li>
      <li><a href="http://ant.apache.org/">Apache Ant</a> 1.8 or later</li>
      <li><strong>Not</strong> compatible with Gnu Compiler for Java (gcj)</li>
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<p class="note"><strong>Note:</strong> Some Linux distributions may include JDK 1.4 or Gnu Compiler
for Java, both of which are <em>not</em> supported for Android development. </p>
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