Setting Up Android For the Nth Time

Since I've been authoring Android apps, I've gone through numerous occasions of installing/re-installing/re-re-installing of the SDK and more recently AndroidStudio.  I've been a bit out of the loop, a bit of a hiatus from development but recently reacquainting with the SDK.

Start by downloading and extracting the SDK;

$ wget http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r24.0.2-linux.tgz

$ tar -zxvf android-sdk_r24.0.2-linux.tgz

Append the locations of the new utilities to your Bash profile;

$ echo "export PATH=\$PATH:~/android-sdk-linux/tools" >> ~/.bashrc

$ echo "export PATH=\$PATH:~/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools" >> ~/.bashrc

The default install generally installs the latest APIs, but you can install additional ones;

$ android

Likely, if you've recently updated or reinstalled the Android SDK, you'll have to update the project XML files.  

The 'update project' command takes a numeric target id, listing the targets and 

find the appropriate id.

$ android list targets | grep id:

id: 1 or "android-7"

id: 2 or "android-8"

id: 3 or "android-21"

id: 4 or "Google Inc.:Google APIs:7"

id: 5 or "Google Inc.:Google APIs:8"

id: 6 or "Google Inc.:Google APIs:21"

The current API version is stored in the project.properties file within the project directory.

$ cat project.properties

.

.

target=Google Inc.:Google APIs:8

.

.

Updating the project to continue to use API 8 would therefore be done by;

$ android update project -p . -t 5

Get the list of devices available by issuing the following command;

$ adb devices

List of devices attached 

01aa7bcb8c8c07be device

$ adb -s 01aa7bcb8c8c07be install -r ./bin/Test01-debug-unaligned.apk

Whole buncha interesting stuff is available by examining the APK;

$ aapt dump badging ./bin/Test01-debug-unaligned.apk

package: name='com.abc.test01' versionCode='3' versionName='1.2' platformBuildVersionName=''

application-label:'Test01'

application-icon-160:'res/drawable/icon.png'

application: label='Test01' icon='res/drawable/icon.png'

application-debuggable

launchable-activity: name='com.abc.test01.Test01'  label='Test01' icon=''

uses-permission: name='android.permission.INTERNET'

uses-permission: name='android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE'

uses-permission: name='android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE'

sdkVersion:'7'

targetSdkVersion:'7'

feature-group: label=''

  uses-feature: name='android.hardware.screen.portrait'

  uses-implied-feature: name='android.hardware.screen.portrait' reason='one or more activities have specified a portrait orientation'

  uses-feature: name='android.hardware.touchscreen'

  uses-implied-feature: name='android.hardware.touchscreen' reason='default feature for all apps'

main

other-activities

supports-screens: 'small' 'normal' 'large'

supports-any-density: 'true'

locales: '--_--'

densities: '160'

That's all for now.  Cheers.