Android Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v3.05, by Herong Yang
Downloading and Installing Apache Ant 1.9
This section describes how to download and install Apache Ant 1.9.5 on a Windows system. Apache Ant is a popular Java application build tool that allows you to automate the Java application build process.
To develop Android applications in Java language, you also need to install Apache Ant, which is a popular Java application build tool that allows you to automate the Java application build process.
Here is what I did to download and install Apache Ant 1.9.5 on my Windows system.
1. Go to Apache Ant home page: http://ant.apache.org/ and click "Download / Binary Distributions" in the menu.
2. Click the link "apache-ant-1.9.5-bin.zip" next to ".zip archive:" in the "Current Release of Ant" section to start download.
3. Save the download file to C:\download\apache-ant-1.9.5-bin.zip and wait for the download to finish.
4. Unzip C:\download\apache-ant-1.9.5-bin.zip to folder C:\local\apache-ant-1.9.3.
5. Set JAVA_HOME as a system environment variable to point to the JDK 1.8 home folder:
set "JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_45"
To verify the installation, open a command window to try the "ant" command. If you are getting the following output, your installation is done correctly:
C:\herong>\local\apache-ant-1.9.5\bin\ant -version Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.5 compiled on May 31 2015
Table of Contents
Installing JDK 1.8 on Windows System
Installation of Android SDK R24 and Emulator
►Installing Apache Ant 1.9 on Windows System
►Downloading and Installing Apache Ant 1.9
Preparations on Using Apache Ant Tool
First Apache Ant Build File Example
Developing First Android Application - HelloAndroid
Android Application Package (APK) Files
Android Debug Bridge (adb) Tool
AboutAndroid - Application to Retrieve System Information
android.app.Activity Class and Activity Lifecycle
View Objects and Layout Resource Files
Using "adb logcat" Command for Debugging
Build Process and Package File Content
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Mini Tablet
USB Debugging Applications on Samsung Tablet
USB Debugging Applications on LG-V905R Tablet