Android SDK

The Android Software Development Kit is the SDK for writing Android applications.

Android depends on the JDK to compile Android applications, but once the application gets installed on Android, the Android Runtime or Dalvik (depending on the Android version) runs the application.

Android's class library (both the core Java classes and Android-specific APIs) is contained in android.jar and has lots of types spread over several namespaces (or "packages", in Java lingo).

See Also

• Get set up for Android Development in Fire on Mac
• Get set up for Android Development in Water on Windows
• Get set up for Android Development in Visual Studio on Windows
• Android Developer Portal
• Android APIs Official Docs by Google
• Java Platform and the JDK

See Also

• Android NDK with the Island Platform
• Creating an Android NDK Extension Tutorial