You're reading from Android Application Development with Maven Learn how to use and configure Maven to support all phases of the development of an Android application

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783986101

Length 192 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Maven

Concepts

Android Development

Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. Beginning with the Basics FREE CHAPTER

2. Starting the Development Phase

3. Unit Testing

4. Integration Testing

5. Android Flavors

6. Release Life Cycle and Continuous Integration

7. Other Tools and Plugins

Index

Installing Java

Prior to anything else, download and install a JDK7 and optionally a Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Both of them are downloadable from the Oracle website: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7-downloads-1880260.html. As a reminder, the JDK is a collection of tools needed to develop, compile, and monitor a Java application in the development state, whereas a JRE is needed to run a Java-compiled class or an archive. Keep in mind also that at the time this book was written, Android was not officially supporting JDK8 and that Oracle had already announced the end of public releases of JDK7. We hope that now that you read these lines, Android is compatible with the latest JDK. If not, then you should pick and install the latest available update of JDK7.

Set the environment variable JAVA_HOME to the right location, such as /var/opt/java or C:\win32app\jdk_1.7.X folder.

Then, add $JAVA_HOME/bin or %JAVA_HOME%\bin parameter to your PATH variable.

Check this by running the command java -version in a terminal. Here is an example of the expected output:

C:\>java -version
java version "1.7.0_45"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_45-b18)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 24.45-b08, mixed mode)