I want to develop Android apps on the Mac, but the information on http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html is confusing. Apart from the android-sdk_r06-mac_86.zip , does the Mac need JDK or Eclipse ?
The JDK installation page gives a link to Apple site for downloading “Java Developer Preview 10M3222+9M3222”, which is a pre-release version. I am not sure whether this is what I need. Also somewhere says Mac has already got Java SDK by default and no need to install extra, which makes more confusing.
Do I need to install the “Eclipse+ ADT Plugin for Eclipse” as well?
I just did a check, and not sure whether the following means I do not need to install any extra JDK. Is the Mac’s JDK 1.6.0_20 the equivalent of the other platforms’ JDK 6?
$ javac -version
javac 1.6.0_20
$ which javac
/usr/bin/javac
$ ls -la /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/
total 64
…. drwxr-xr-x 9 root wheel 306 26 May 11:34 A
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1 26 May 11:34 Current -> A
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3 26 May 11:34 CurrentJDK -> 1.6
You don’t need to install any JDK on Mac OS, there is one installed by default.
you can run the
javaccommand to check that the JDK is present.Usually it’s in /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.Framework/Versions/Current/
You still need to install other tools such as android SDK, Eclipse, and its plugins.