About Setting Up the Android Platform

Before you can use Mobile Designer to build applications for the Android platform, you need to set up your environment. The following table lists required and optional tasks to set up the environment.

Setup	Required or Optional	Tasks
Development Environment	Required	Install the Android Studio IDE along with the Android SDK. For more information, see: Installing the Android SDK on Windows Installing the Android SDK on Macintosh
Mobile Designer Configuration	Required	Update the Mobile Designer sdk.properties file to provide information about the installed Android SDK. For more information, see Configuring Mobile Designer for the Android SDK
Emulators	Optional	Define Android emulators if you want to test Android applications on emulated devices. For more information, see Setting Up an Android Virtual Device (Emulator).
Emulators	Optional	Specify a proxy server to use if the Android emulator must access the Internet through a proxy server. For more information, see Using the Android Emulator with a Proxy Server

The procedures in this documentation do not cover all possible setups and scenarios. Refer to the Android Developer website at http://developer.android.com/index.html for further details.