Getting Started with Victoria for Android Development

• Setting Up the Android Development Environment
• Installing the Vuforia Android SDK
• How to Compile and Run an Android Sample
• How To Install an APK using ADB

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Setting Up the Android Development Environment

Supported development platforms

• The Vuforia SDK officially supports Android OS 4.1 and above, and OpenGL ES 2 and 3.
• The recommended development environment is Microsoft Windows 7 or 8 32/64-bit.
• The components of the build environment (JDK, Android Studio, Android SDK / NDK) are available for multiple platforms. 

        Note: This setup guide has been written for the Win7 32/64-bit platform with special notes for other operating systems.

Steps:

If you have already set up the Android SDK and NDK, go directly to Installing the Vuforia Android SDK

The Vuforia SDK requires the Android SDK and the NDK. The Android NDK is an extension of the Android SDK that allows Android developers to build performance-critical parts of their applications in native code. The SDK and NDK communicate over the Java Native Interface (JNI).

To set up the development environment, install these components in the following order, using the latest versions of the tools with the Vuforia SDK:

1. JDK (Java SE)
2. Android Studio IDE
3. Android SDK packages
4. Cygwin environment
5. Android NDK

6. Android Studio

   Android Studio provides everything you need to start developing apps for Android, including the Android Studio IDE and the Android SDK tools.
   1. Download the Android Studio installer from: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
   2. Once the download has completed, run the installer executable and follow the installation instructions to install the IDE in the destination directory of your choice (e.g. C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio ); in particular, pay attention to the following steps:
      • In the Select components to install page, make sure that Android SDK option is selected;
      • In the Configuration Settings Install Locations page of the install wizard, specify the location where you want to install the Android SDK; we suggest to set it to a location like C:\Development\Android\android-sdk , where C:\Development\Android represents the base directory of your Android development environment; this is also the directory where you will want to install the Android NDK, as discussed later in this guide (note: we will refer to such base directory as <DEVELOPMENT_ROOT> in the remainder of this guide)

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