A development kit to create Android applications.
Google has placed the world of mobile telephones and
netbooks upside down by introducing their own operating system in the market. The operating system is
based in Linux, it is very light and it has a grand variety of applications available, that have little to envy iPhone.
Android SDK is the pack of tools necessary to develop programs and utilities for mobiles (or
netbooks) that use the afore mentioned operating system. The development kit includes all the necessary APIs so that we can, by using
JAVA, develop the applications.
Among the main features of
Android SDK we will find:
-
Dalmik virtual machine to check the applications
-
SQLite Databases
- Support for GSM or 3G telephone applications
- Compatibility to develop applications that use
Bluetooth, GPS or WiFi- Native support for
YouTube, Google Mail or Picasa If you want to start downloading you own application for mobiles that use the Google operating system,
download Android SDK now.
Requirements: This
download requires a ZIP compatible compressor. It also requires that Java Runtime Environment.
Note: This
download only includes the SDK tools, so it is also necessary to install the
Android 2.1 platform, to do so you can use the SDK Manager. It also requires that you have Java installed.