Google releases new Android SDK

Android SDK m5-rc14 now available today.

There are a couple of changes in m5-rc14 I'd like to highlight:

• New user interface - As I mentioned when we introduced the m3 version
  of the Android SDK, we're continuing to refine the UI that's available
  for Android. m5-rc14 replaces the previous placeholder with a new UI,
  but as before, work on it is still in-progress.
• Layout animations - Developers can now create layout animations for their applications using the capabilities introduced in the android.view.animation package. Check out the LayoutAnimation*.java files in the APIDemos sample code for examples of how this works.
• Geo-coding - android.location.Geocoder
  enables developers to forward and reverse geo-code (i.e. translate an
  address into a coordinate and vice-versa), and also search for
  businesses.
• New media codecs - The MediaPlayer class has added support for the OGG Vorbis, MIDI, XMF, iMelody, RTTL/RTX, and OTA audio file formats.
• Updated Eclipse plug-in
  - A new version of ADT is available and provides improvements to the
  Android developer experience. In particular, check out the new Android
  Manifest editor.

You can download the new SDK here:
http://code.google.com/android/download.html

Upgrading?

If you have already downloaded an earlier version of the SDK and developed applications on it, please read the Upgrading the SDK document instead. The Upgrading document explains
how to migrate your existing development environment and applications to the new SDK release. The document also provides
information that you will find useful during the upgrade, such as lists of framework and API changes.

To develop Android applications using the code and tools in the
Android SDK, you need a suitable development computer and development
environment, as described below.

Supported Operating Systems

• Windows XP or Vista
• Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later (x86 only)
• Linux (tested on Linux Ubuntu Dapper Drake)

Supported Development Environments

• Eclipse IDE
  
  • Eclipse 3.2, 3.3 (Europa)
  • Eclipse JDT plugin (included in most Eclipse IDE packages)
  • WST (optional, but needed for the Android Editors feature; included in most Eclipse IDE packages)
  • JDK 5 or JDK 6 (JRE alone is not sufficient)
  • Not compatible with Gnu Compiler for Java (gcj)
  • Android Development Tools plugin (optional)
  
  
• Other development environments or IDEs
  
  • JDK 5 or JDK 6 (JRE alone is not sufficient)
  • Not compatible with Gnu Compiler for Java (gcj)
  • Apache Ant 1.6.5 or later for Linux and Mac, 1.7 or later for Windows
  
  

Note: If JDK is already installed on your development computer,
please take a moment to make sure that it meets the version
requirements listed above. In
particular, note that some Linux distributions may include JDK 1.4 or
Gnu Compiler for Java, both of which are not supported for Android
development.

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