The point of this article is to get you up and running in an Android programming environment as quickly as possible. To do this, I've made a few decisions about the toolset, so that the environment most closely matches what we use in our Android training here at Falafel. To create the screenshots, I'll use a Windows 7, 64-bit operating system and install the latest JDK, Eclipse IDE and Android tools.

To start developing Android applications in the Eclipse IDE, you need to install four pieces of software:

• The Java Development Kit (JDK). The download can be found at: http://oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html...