Titanium Mobile Android Development: Installation

In this series of tutorials we use Appcelerator’s Titanium Mobile platform to create Android applications. This tutorial goes over the installation and configuration of the Android SDK and Titanium Mobile on a Windows 7.

Java

Although our Titanium application will be created using Javascript, the Android SDK (which Titanium sits on top of) runs on Java. It’s likely you already have the JRE (Java Runtime Enviroment) installed on your computer, this allows Java applications to run. However to develop applications using Java (and hence Titanium) you will need the JDK (Java Development Kit). Head over to the Oracle website, download and install it. If you have already created Java applications before, this will probably already be installed on your system.

Android SDK

The next step is to get the Android SDK. Download, install and start the application (SDK Manager). Once it’s up and running you will be prompted to install different versions of the Android SDK, documentation and samples. You must install Android SDK Platform-tools. The choice of SDK versions is up to you. If you only intend to develop for Android 2.2, then only choose the 2.2 package. If you want your application to run on…