Installing Android SDK on Linux

Introduction
This is a fast guide to putting in the Google Android SDK on Opensuse Linux. Most steps explained here additionally apply to different variations of Linux also.

The Google Android SDK may be downloaded for complimentary off the Android Developers web site, and at the time of writing 1.7 SDK Release 1 had simply been discharged as weighs in at around 230MB's compressed.
Installation Step

• Ensure you have Android SDK downloaded, and the included USB driver installed correctly on your desktop
• In order to use the SDK tools the SDK's tools directory needs to be in your path. On the console type :
  

  PATH="/home/andylah/android/sdk/platform-tools/:$PATH"

• On a 64bit OS,  you'll have  to additionally add the 32bit java path too else the probabilities ar your system will attempt run the files with the incorrect java and also the code won't work :
  

  export PATH="/opt/emul-linux-x86-java-1.6.0.15/bin/:/home/andylah/android/sdk/platform-tools/:$PATH"

• On your phone, ensure you switch ON USB debugging. head to Settings -> Applications -> Development -> USB debugging and ensure you have got ticked the box.
• Connect your phone to your computer (no have to be compelled to mount the sdcard), and when a number of seconds once your USB devices settle,  write  'adb devices' on console :
  

  $ adb devices
  List of devices attached
  S56600f85a990 device

If you are doing not get a tool underneath the list of devices then you'll ought to check your USB permissions. If you are doing get one thing like what you see higher than, it suggests that your SDK is running properly and might see your phone.