The foundation of android mobile development using any library is the “Android SDK”. Go to the Settings tab click on Add button to add repository.Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash

Open NetBeans ( Application -> Programming -> NetBeans 7.1 IDE). We need to add repository for android plugin, follow the steps to add Android plugin repository for NetBeans IDE. Select the version of your choice and then click on the install packages in the right side (for demonstration purpose i am installing the Android 4.0.3). ~/$ cd ~/DownloadsĮxtract the downloaded file. Assume that downloaded file is in ~/Downloads directory. If you are developing the apps for the Android download the latest version of SDK. If you haven’t installed here is the tutorial about installing NetBeans 7.1 IDE on Linux Mint 12.Īndroid 4.0 delivers a refined, unified UI for phones and tablets and introduces innovative features for users and developers. This is how to guide for those who uses Linux Mint or Ubuntu as operating system in their Desktop or NoteBooks.īefore configuring Android SDK you must have NetBeans installed on Linux Mint. If you look in to the Linux distribution you might find lot of operating system based on Linux, in that Linux Mint and Ubuntu are mostly widely used. Those are using different type of operating system depends on their requirements, now a days Linux distribution is more effective than windows operating system.

Most of the developers uses the Eclipse for Android apps development with the help of official plugin from the Google, but still there are some developer who loves to work on NetBeans for developing Android application.

This guide focusing on Android SDK with the NetBeans 7+ IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for developing apps for the Android operating system.

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