CHAPTER 1: Setting Up Your Android App Development System 29- Once you’ve downloaded an installer, install it using the default settings and
create a quick launch icon for it. Run Lightworks to assure it’s set up properly
on your system, as you have done with your other new software.
Congratulations, you’ve assembled a professional-grade Android Application and New Media
Content Development Workstation! You can now use your newest software development weapon
to create Android UI designs, and develop user experiences as yet unseen. I hope you are excited,
because I am!
Even though you’ve installed all of this amazing software and set up quick launch shortcuts for your
future ease (speed) of development usage, you’ll still need to configure Eclipse ADT for use and set
up AVD Android Virtual Device emulators, which we’ll be covering in the next chapter of the book.
Just to be thorough, let’s install a business productivity software suite! We will do this just in case
you need to assemble quotes, spreadsheets, and contracts for all of your future Android OS
software development projects.
A Complete Business Software Suite: Apache OpenOffice
To make 100% sure that your Android development workstation has everything installed that you will
need for your Android development business, let’s finish off this run of professional software installation
with yet another package originally from Oracle, the makers of Java, called Open Office 4.1.
Do a Google search for OpenOffice or go to the http://www.openoffice.org web site, as shown in Figure 1 -2 0.
Figure 1-20. The OpenOffice 4.0 downloads button on the OpenOffice home page
Click on the I want to download OpenOffice link, to go to the OpenOffice 4.1
download page.- Once you are on the /download/ page, shown in Figure 1-21, click the green
area to download the most recent version of the office suite for your OS.