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Manage components in the SDK Manager

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Manage components in the SDK Manager

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- [Instructor] To build and run our apps we'll need the Android SDK. You can manage which aspects of the SDK are installed locally by going to tools, SDK manager. Here we'll see the location on our machines where the SDK components are stored as well as the listing of all available tools and packages. In the first tab, we find the available SDK platforms. The ones that are checked with a status of installed are the ones that we have downloaded on our machine. The first column contains the user-facing name of the Android OS version. And the second is the API number, which is what we use most often as developers. You'll only want to install the SDK platforms that you intend on using for development or running on a virtual device. For example, if I need to test my app on a device running Android 6.0 Marshmallow, then I'd click on the check box right next to its name. A download icon would appear letting me know that this…

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