Inaccurate Android Setup Steps in Livecode's Tutorial

[Neil Roger]

Hi Ray et al.

Thank you for bringing the in-correct information in the Android lesson 
to our attention. I have amended this to reflect the up to date layout 
of the oracle website.

If you have installed the Java JDK and then configured the Android SDK 
according to the "how-do-i-become-an-android-developer" lesson then you 
should receive no errors when attempting to set LiveCodes mobile support 
preferences.

We recently created an general setup video for one of our academies. I 
have extracted the Android lesson from this and uploaded it here-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83qrKr9bR3M&feature=youtu.be

Although this video has been created on the Mac platform, the only major 
difference is not needing to install the JDK when working on a Mac. The 
remaining setup is almost identical across platforms.

Let me know how you get on with the video and if you still experience 
issues with Android Setup

Kind Regards,

Neil Roger
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RunRev Support Team ~ http://www.runrev.com
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On 24/09/2013 16:55, Ray Horsley wrote:
> I'm attempting to follow these steps to set up my system for some 
> Android dev work:
>
> http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/2571/l/27385-how-do-i-become-an-android-developer-on-a-pc#!prettyPhoto 
>
>
> The first is this link to install the Java SDK:
>
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
>
> but there's no way to "click the first button in a row of four" since 
> there's no row of four buttons.  Evidently the web page has changed.  
> There's an icon of a coffee cup but no icon of "only the word Java" as 
> per the Livecode tutorial steps.
>
> I guessed and went with the Java Platform (JDK) 7u40 download and on 
> the following screen I chose the Windows x64 variant of "Java SE 
> Development Kit 7u40" for my 64 bit machine.  This download did not 
> give me an installer or a wizzard as Livecode's steps detail. It 
> simply gave me compressed files.  I decompressed them and continued 
> 'guessing around' on my own.  In doing so I was able to create a 
> virtual Android, but when I try to set the "Location of my Android 
> development SDK root" in Livecode's preferences it complains the 
> folder I've chosen is not a valid Android SDK folder regardless of 
> which folder in that area I choose.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ray
>
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