Summary
In this chapter, we have seen some basic things that are required to kick start our app development. This will help us to avoid errors that may be due to some misconfigurations.
You have learned how to set up Android Studio and Eclipse on various platforms. Then, you have learned about the advantages of each IDE over the other, and how to create an AVD. You created a sample application. Finally, you learned about some additional stuff such as ADB and setting Java environment variables.
In the next chapter, we will see how to obtain the API key, SHA1 fingerprint and develop our first Maps application.