I want to develop Android applications on Mac, but the information on http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html is confusing. Besides android-sdk_r06-mac_86.zip, do I need a Mac JDK or Eclipse?
The JDK installation page provides a link to Apple's download site "Java Developer Preview 10M3222 + 9M3222", which is a pre-release version. I am not sure if this is what I need. They also say somewhere that the Mac has already received the Java SDK by default and there is no need to install unnecessary ones, which makes it more confusing.
Do I need to install "Eclipse + ADT Plugin for Eclipse"?
I just checked and am not sure of the following: I donβt need to install any additional JDKs. Is Mac JDK 1.6.0_20 equivalent to JDK 6 of other platforms?
$ javac -version
javac 1.6.0_20
$ which javac
/ Usr / bin / javac
$ ls -la / System / Library / Frameworks / JavaVM.framework / Versions /
total 64
.... drwxr-xr-x 9 Root Wheel 306 May 26 11:34 A
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1 May 26 11:34 Current β A
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3 May 26 11:34 CurrentJDK β 1.6
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