You're reading from Learning Node.js for Mobile Application Development Make use of Node.js to learn the development of a simple yet scalable cross-platform mobile application

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781785280498

Length 248 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Node.js

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Setting Up Your Workspace FREE CHAPTER

2. Configuring Persistence with MongoDB

3. Creating an API

4. Securing Your Backend

5. Real-Time Data and WebSockets

6. Introducing Ionic

7. Building User Interfaces

8. Making Our App Interactive

9. Accessing Native Phone Features

10. Working with APIs

11. Working with Security

12. Working with Real-Time Data

13. Building an Advanced Chat App

14. Creating an E-Commerce Application Using the Ionic Framework

Index

Setting up the Android Software Development Kit

The process of setting up the Android Software Development Kit (SDK) has improved vastly with the introduction of Android Studio, as a number of software packages come pre-installed with the Android Studio install package. As a part of the preparation for getting started with our Android projects, it will be very helpful to understand how one can install (or even uninstall) SDKs within Android Studio.

There are a number of ways of accessing the SDK Manager. This can be done from the main toolbar of Android Studio:

Otherwise, it can be accessed from the Start menu by navigating to Configure—SDK Manager:

This is what the SDK Manager looks like. If you need to install a package, you need to check the mark of that particular package, click on Install packages, and then finally accept the licenses: