A quick start guide to installing the Android Software Development Kit along with your chosen development environments.

Android development starts with the Android SDK - a collection of tools needed to build any kind of Android app. Discover what's included and how to use it.

Android Studio is a developer kit that you can use to create and troubleshoot your own Android apps. We'll go over what it is (and what it isn't).

The Android R Preview SDK just appeared in the SDK Manager, meaning there's likely some new stuff to poke through. As you can see from the screenshot above, Android R revision 1 is now in the list.

Visit the Android Developers site to download and install the Android System Development Kit, or SDK (see Resources). To install the SDK, double-click the downloaded archive to extract the contents.

We show how to install the Android L Beta. Quickly download Android L System Images and prepare Mac, Windows, Linux and Chrome OS for the update.