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In this tutorial, Ron from StepWise Media guides you through installing the Android SDK tools. The SDK tools along with the SDK manager allow you to install API specific software development tools for the Android platform.

SDK Tools Link: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

Prerequisite: JDK Installed

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Tutorial one in this series provided by StepWise Media in beginning Android Application development.

Android apps are programmed with Java, so its only fitting that the first step is installing the Java Development Kit on your system. Covers downloading and installing the JDK, setting the Java path in Windows 7 environment variables and testing the Java version from the command line.

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In the follow up portion the previous post, Ron from StepWise Media walks you through the final steps of setting up the App Inventor for Android Build Server using Amazon's EC2. This portion covers installing JDK 6 (1.6) on the Linux server, unpacking and installing the MIT build server files, setting the security configurations in Amazon EC2 and finally testing to see if your build server is running properly.

Important "copy/paste" links:

Unpack-Inflate JDK 6:

sudo sh jdk-6u30-linux-i586-rpm.bin

Then:

sudo alternatives 

--install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/latest/bin/java 1500

(The above is all one command from the $ prompt)

Then:

sudo alternatives --set java /usr/java/latest/bin/java

Unpacking the buildserver files:

tar -zxf for-BuildServer-v61-Jan-20.tgz

Navigate to the for-BuildServer-v61-Jan-20 directory by typing cd for-BuildServer-v61-Jan-20 Untar the BuildServer by typing:

tar -xf BuildServer.tar

then:
 killall java

then:

./launch-buildserver

Official Docs (2-9-2012) http://appinventoredu.mit.edu/developers-blogs/andrew/2011/nov/running-your-own-app-inventor-service

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In this tutorial, Ron from StepWise Media walks you through the steps to set up an Amazon Web Services account, creating an instance of Amazon 32 bit Linux, installing Putty, Pageant and PuttyGen and then further utilizing the open source FTP client FileZilla to review your directories and uploads.

The final goal of the tutorial is to set up the "build server" portion of MIT's App Inventor for Android using a nearly free solution to run your service.

Part two of this tutorial can be found here:

http://midsouthnewz.com/news/techblog/creating-a-build-server-for-mits-app-inventor-service-part-ii.html

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