Setting up Android development environment

So here are my notes on the subject (using a Linux platfrom).

First install the JDK from Oracle (I had to remove previous rpm from SUN RIP to achieve this):

# rpm -e jdk-1.6.0_30-fcs.i586

# rpm -ivh jdk-6u30-linux-i586.rpm

and make it default system wide:

# update-alternatives --config java

There are 2 alternatives which provide `java'.

  Selection    Alternative

-----------------------------------------------

          1    /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-sun/bin/java

*+        2    /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk/bin/java

Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number: 1

Using '/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-sun/bin/java' to provide 'java'.

$ java -version

java version "1.6.0_26"

Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_26-b03)

Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 20.1-b02, mixed mode)

Then install the current Android SDK, so that it ends up in  ~/android-sdk-linux and launch it with

$ ./android-sdk-linux/tools/android

Then check on all boxes from the API 14 (ICS) bundle and Tools folder, it will download a bunch of stuff.

Then from the Tools -> Manage AVD menu create a virtual device.

Now we need the Eclipse IDE, I downloaded eclipse-java-indigo-SR1-linux-gtk.tar.gz, just extract it to suitable location and run

$ ./eclipse/eclipse

then install the Google ADT plugin as per official docs.

Adding Amazon wishlist

So I have found instructions on how to add a widget to this blog which displays my Amazon wish-list. The reference site to create the Javascript snippet is

https://widgets.amazon.de/Amazon-Wishlist-Widget/

once you have that, go to the blog layout and add a widget (type html/javascript) to the desired position. Enter the snippet in the browser pop-up window. Done.