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It is important to note that you will need to have your workstations connected to the Internet via
high-speed Internet access connection for this Check for Updates utility to be able to reach the
software repository. If you want to do a lot of “heavy” updates to the Android IDE, which entail a
lot of software (data) being transferred over the Internet connection, you will need to have a fast
connection speed.
Once you click on this Check for Updates menu command, a progress bar will appear, which will tell
you what packages Eclipse ADT IDE is looking at, or comparing your current IDE against. If you are
on a fast Internet connection and a fast workstation, you may have to be a speed reader in order to
read fast enough as these blaze by! The dialog is shown in Figure 2-4, fetching the content.jar file.
Figure 2-4. Contacting Software Sites dialog checking for updates
Figure 2-5. Information dialog showing that No updates were found
Hopefully, you will eventually receive the “No updates were found” message, which will appear at
the end of this “installed IDE packages to repository available packages” comparison work process,
as shown in Figure 2-5.
If for some reason new versions of any of the Android software components are available, you will be
advised, and then asked to accept the licensing agreements so that you can install the new software.
After the updating process is accomplished, you can then proceed to take a gander at exactly what
API components have been installed as part of the “ADT Bundle” Eclipse IDE that you installed in the
previous chapter as well as in this chapter (if any updates were found, that is).
You’re going to look at your Android API installation using the Android SDK Manager Tool next,
so that you become more familiar with that tool and with your currently installed ADT utilities and
Android SDK components such as APIs and documentation and emulation utilities.