Wednesday, January 4, 2012

[How To] Download latest android sdk via Download Accelerator

Google recently announced Android SDK 4.0.3 code-name :  Ice Cream Sandwich which provides great handful tols to developer . But sometimes downloading with standard SDK manager is hectic and slow process , you can increase the speed of this process with Download accelerator :)

Things you need :-


  • A good download accelerator
  • Android sdk manager for linux /windows 
Steps:


  1. Unzip the SDK manager in your document folder or folder of your choice
  2. Create a Temp folder in  SDK  folder
  3. Use the https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/  with name of the file you want .
    for eg : I wanted to download android sdk 4.03 and goggle apis so i used following links 


  • https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/android-15_r01.zip  
  • https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/google_apis-15_r01.zip


To know the name of the file you want go to following url :- https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/repository-5.xml
To get google add-ons go to following url :- https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/addons_list-1.xml


   4. Move the file you downloaded to temp folder and run sdk and select the package that you downloaded
  


This should install your latest SDK on your PC . 
If you have any difficulty in this you comment here and get your questioned answered.


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