On May 16, 2013, at a Google I/O conference, an integrated development environment (IDE) was released by Katherine Chou under the Apache license 2.0 and was called Android Studio for developing apps on the Android platform. It entered the beta stage in 2014, and its first stable release was on December 2014, starting with version 1.0. It was announced as an official IDE on September 15, 2015. For more information on Android Studio and SDK, refer to http://developer.android.com/tools/studio/index.html#build-system.
Android Studio and SDK heavily depend on the Java SE Development Kit.
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Java SE Development Kit can be downloaded from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7-downloads-1880260.html.
Some of the developers prefer different IDEs, such as Eclipse and so on. For them, Google offers SDK-only downloads at http://dl.google.com/android/installer_r24.4.1-windows.exe.
There are some minimum system requirements that need to be fulfilled in order...