Updating the API sources

The SDK manager and related tools come bundled with the ADT package; they provide access to the latest and most stable APIs, Android emulator images, and various debugging and application testing tools. The following walkthrough shows you how to update your APIs and other Android development-related resources.

How to do it...

Updating the APIs for your ADT works as follows:

  1. Navigate to the SDK manager. If you're doing this all from Windows, you should find it in the root of the ADT-bundle folder called SDK Manager.exe. Ubuntu users will find it at [path to ADT-bundle]/sdk/tools/android.
  2. All you need to do is launch the SDK manager. It should start up and begin retrieving a fresh list of the available API and documentation ...

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