Time for action – installing Android packages

The SDK manager will give you a list of packages that you can check and install by performing the following steps:

1. Check the following packages:

   • Android SDK Tools

   • Android SDK Platform-tools

   • Anroid 4.1.2 (API 16) platform (except Google APIs)

   • Android Support Library (in the Extras folder)

   • Google USB Driver (in the Extras folder)

   • The following screenshot depicts these packages:

   

2. After checking all of the packages listed previously, click on Install 12 packages… (the total number may vary) and let the SDK manager run its course.

   Tip

   The future versions of the OUYA software may use a later version of the Android platform. For updated version numbers and instructions, refer to the documentation found at https://devs.ouya.tv/developers/docs/setup.

The packages include almost everything we need, but we need to manually configure the Android USB driver before it's ready to use, which is what we'll do next.

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