Before continuing with the pending application, it is important to continue to delve a little deeper into different key elements in the process of developing mobile applications with Android, so this time we will see what the SDK is and how to work with it.
The SDK stands for Software Development Kit, this is the Android developer kit that is included when installing Android Studio, it provides a set of classes and libraries necessary to develop and test our applications depending on the version of the operating system with which we want to work , the SDK includes the Android Virtual Device to emulate the applications, the code debugger, documentation, examples and other useful tools for developers.
To access the Android Studio SDK, we can go to File/Settings/System Settings/Android SDK or in the upper right corner SDK Manager icon
By doing so, the window is loaded where you can see the different SDKs according to the different Android versions, here we see that Android API version 32 has been downloaded
If you click on the “show package details” option, you can see the details of the downloadable SDK, specifying some available tools and resources.
If we go into the SDK Tools tab, we will see other important tools to support our development environment and applications, such as hardware acceleration tools for our emulators, among others.
And that's it. As we can see the SDK is essential for the development of applications, just as in languages like Java there is the JDK (Java Developent Kit) the SDK provides all the necessary environment for developers, every time a new version of the operating system comes out , Android studio automatically provides the options to download the corresponding SDK.
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