Google released Android 5.0 Lollipop SDK just a couple of days back and if you are a developer or starting to be one and looking to develop apps for the latest Android, you need to grab the SDK and install it on your development system – be it Windows or Mac.
To help you with that process, we have listed out the steps you need to follow to get your development environment up and running. We will look at installing the SDK on a Windows system here.
- Fetch the Android 5.0 Lollipop SDK installer from here
- Install the Android SDK files
- The execute SDK Manager application *
- Wait for some time until the application is loaded and fetched all Android SDK packages
- Once prompted select the packages you want to install **
- Click on Install packages. You should get prompts to confirm packages you have chosen to install and agree to the License information to proceed
- Click on Install and wait for all the packages to download and install ***
- How to set up Android Emulator for Android 5.0
- Go to Android SDK folder and run AVD Manager. Click on New and create virtual device providing necessary details ****
- Select the virtual device which you just now created and click on Start
- Do not make any change under Launch Options and simply click on Launch button
- After a few Command Prompt windows flickr the emulator will start and you should see a screen with Android device booting up. This will take about five minutes to boot
- You should now see a screen saying emulator has been successfully installed
* If you have downloaded the zipped version of SDK, you will need to go to the location where the zip archive is extracted.
** Select Android 5.0 (API 21) and Android SDK platform-tools only and leave the Extras.
*** Select and install SDK platform and ARM EABI v7a System Image only if you want Android Emulator.
**** Use default value for Max VM application heap. As Android supports variety of display, you can explore with different devices by selecting in Device:dropdown.
