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<p>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.</p>

<p><strong>Supported Operating Systems:</strong></p>
<ul>
  <li>Windows XP or Vista</li>
  <li>Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later (x86 only)</li>
  <li>Linux (tested on Linux Ubuntu Dapper Drake)</li>
</ul>

<p><strong>Supported Development Environments:</strong></p>
<ul>
  <li>Eclipse IDE
    <ul>
      <li><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/">Eclipse</a> 3.3 (Europa), 3.4 (Ganymede)
        <ul>
        <li>Eclipse <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/jdt">JDT</a> plugin (included in most Eclipse IDE packages) </li>
        <li><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/webtools">WST</a> (optional, but needed for the Android Editors feature; included in <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/moreinfo/compare.php">most Eclipse IDE packages</a>)</li>
        </ul>
      </li>     
      <li><a href="http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp">JDK 5 or JDK 6</a> (JRE alone is not sufficient)</li>
      <li><a href="installing.html#installingplugin">Android Development Tools plugin</a> (optional)</li>
      <li><strong>Not</strong> compatible with Gnu Compiler for Java (gcj)</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Other development environments or IDEs
    <ul>
      <li><a href="http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp">JDK 5 or JDK 6</a> (JRE alone is not sufficient)</li>
      <li><a href="http://ant.apache.org/">Apache Ant</a> 1.6.5 or later for Linux and Mac, 1.7 or later for Windows</li>
      <li><strong>Not</strong> compatible with Gnu Compiler for Java (gcj)</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>

<p class="note"><strong>Note:</strong> 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. </p>