The License Agreement forms a legally binding contract between you and Google in relation to your use of the SDK.ġ.2 "Android" means the Android software stack for devices, as made available under the Android Open Source Project, which is located at the following URL:, as updated from time to time.ġ.3 A "compatible implementation" means any Android device that (i) complies with the Android Compatibility Definition document, which can be found at the Android compatibility website () and which may be updated from time to time and (ii) successfully passes the Android Compatibility Test Suite (CTS).ġ.4 "Google" means Google LLC, organized under the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, and operating under the laws of the USA with principal place of business at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.Ģ.1 In order to use the SDK, you must first agree to the License Agreement. In this tutorial, we will assume you’ve unzipped it to your Documents folder (~/Documents/android-sdk-macosx).This is the Android Software Development Kit License Agreementġ.1 The Android Software Development Kit (referred to in the License Agreement as the "SDK" and specifically including the Android system files, packaged APIs, and Google APIs add-ons) is licensed to you subject to the terms of the License Agreement. Note: You can choose the download under Get the SDK for an existing IDE if you don’t intend to use the Android IDE directly.
To install and configure Java and the Android SDKĭownload and install JDK 7 for Mac. Next, install and configure Java and the Android SDK. Start the Settings app then go to Sharing and Check Remote Login. Parallelsįirst, make sure that you have configured your Parallels VM setup to run in Shared Networking mode (it is the default setting).īecause you will be setting up an SSH tunnel, you will need to enable SSH logins for your Mac. If not, follow the complete step-by-step instructions in this section. If you have already installed and configured Java and the Android SDK on your Mac, all you need to do is enable Remote Login in the OSX Sharing settings, and then you can skip to the Windows setup.
Most of the steps in this section show how to install and configure Java and the Android SDK on your Mac. The instructions here use the Android emulator as an example, but you should be able to do this with other emulators like GenyMotion as well. In this tutorial, we will show how to speed up Android emulation by running the Android emulator on OSX rather than inside Parallels running Windows using a SSH tunnel. In other tutorials, we’ve shown how to Build a Cordova app for iOS using Parallels so you can use the tools from your Mac.
Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova allow you to build cross-platform, multi-device hybrid apps based on Apache Cordova. Run the Android emulator on OSX when using Windows in Parallels