Appendix B

Android Tools Overview

Apache Ant, the Eclipse IDE with Google’s Android Development Tools (ADT) Plugin, Google’s SDK Manager and AVD Manager, and its SDK tools and platform tools form the foundation of the Android app development ecosystem. Each of the SDK tools and platform tools is described in this appendix.

NOTE: This appendix refers to booting in several places. To learn how an Android system boots up (and specifically how this happens for the Android Developer Phone 1), check out “Android Booting” (http://elinux.org/Android_Booting).

SDK Tools

SDK tools are the basic tools that are included in the SDK distribution file, and which are stored in the tools directory. This section introduces you to all basic tools as of Android ...

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