How to Install Android

In this blog , we explain you that how to install android. Android is a mobile operating system developed by the Open Handset Alliance, led by Google, and other companies. It is depend on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open source software. It is designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

Android offers a unified approach to application development for mobile devices which means developers need only to develop for Android, and its applications should be able to run on different devices powered by Android. It has become the best-selling OS worldwide on smartphones since 2011 and on tablets since 2013. As of May 2017, it has over two billion monthly active users, the largest installed base of any operating system, and as of June 2018, the Google Play store features over 3.3 million apps.

There are many reasons to use Android:

Android provides a beautiful and intuitive user interface.
It is depends on the open-source WebKit layout engine.
Android OS has an interesting feature called Auto Correction. If you typed any word and it is not spelled correctly, then Android recommends the meaningful and correct words matching the words available in their Dictionary.
It has native support for multi-touch.
Android supports capturing a screenshot by pressing the power and home-screen buttons at the same time.
Android supports connectivity technologies including GSM/EDGE, Bluetooth, LTE, CDMA, EV-DO, UMTS, NFC, IDEN and WiMAX.
It also supports tethering, which allows a phone to be used as a wireless/wired Wi-Fi hotspot.

Installing Android

Step 1: Environment Setup.

Download the latest version of Java JDK from Oracle’s Java site.
Now, set PATH and JAVA_HOME environment variables to refer to the directory that contains java and javac, typically java_install_dir/bin and java_install_dir respectively. In another way, you can also right-click on My Computer, select Properties from this, then Advanced, then Environment Variables. Then, update the PATH value and press the OK button to save the settings.

Step 2: After that download Android Studio.

Download the latest version of android studio from Android Studio site.

Step 3. After that setup Android Studio.

Now, launch Android Studio .exe.
After you launched the Android Studio, mention JDK7 path or later version in android studio installer.
Check the components from Android Studio, Android SDK, Android Virtual Machine and performance(Intel chip), which are required to create applications.
Now, specify the location of local machine path for Android studio and Android SDK. And the location that you have specified must have at least 500MB of free space.
At final stage, it would extract SDK packages into our local machine, it would take some time to finish the task.
After finishing all the steps, you will get finish button and it will take you to open android studio project with Welcome to android studio message.

Step 4. Start Application Development

You can start your application development by calling start a new android studio project. In the new project, it will ask for Application name, package information and location of the project.
After entered application name, it will ask for the form factors your application runs on, here need to specify Minimum SDK.
The next level of installation should contain add an activity to mobile, choose the activity from this as per your requirement.
Now, at final stage it going to be open development tool to write the application code.