Android SDK Installation

[rok]

The Linux guide for Android (https://bitbucket.org/MartinFelis/love- ... id_-_Linux) seems to be a bit outdated (Updated 2015-12-01) so I have some questions.

I am using Arch Linux.

I've already installed:
- Java SDK
- Android SDK
- Apache Ant

I also have those components installed:
- Android SDK Tools 25.1.7
- Android SDK Platform-tools 24
- Android SDK Build-tools 24

The guide also mentions "Android 4.4.2 (API 19)" and the "Android Support Library". The support library isn't available for download anymore and for the 4.4.2, isn't that outdated?

Which packages do I still have to install? I'm new to Android development and that Android environment seems to be pretty huge and I do not want to install packages on my system which I wont need

Also I am still missing the NDK, why the hell does that thing have to be over 700 MB

[bartbes]

The guide also mentions "Android 4.4.2 (API 19)" and the "Android Support Library". The support library isn't available for download anymore and for the 4.4.2, isn't that outdated?

The support library is still available for me, under Extras. As for installing api 19, yes, it's older, but it still works, and that's the version the build system targets. Note that you only need the SDK platform. It is probably possible to build it using a newer API, but you may have to edit the build files to accommodate that.

I do not want to install packages on my system which I wont need

You could always remove them..

Also I am still missing the NDK, why the hell does that thing have to be over 700 MB

Yeah, it's kind of annoying how massive both the SDK and the NDK are, apparently I've installed 5GiB worth of "android-stuff".

[rok]

So I've tried building again after installing a few more packages.

If I check "Obsolete" the "Android Support Library" shows up under Extras.
The current build files from the repository want me to use API 23, so 19 seems to be outdated as stated in the guide.
I am also getting an exception "[dx] Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/android/dx/command/Main : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0" and the build stops with the message:

BUILD FAILED
/opt/android-sdk/tools/ant/build.xml:888: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/opt/android-sdk/tools/ant/build.xml:890: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/opt/android-sdk/tools/ant/build.xml:902: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/opt/android-sdk/tools/ant/build.xml:283: null returned: 1

[Snake174rus]

Unsupported major.minor version 52.0

You need JDK 8

[develCuy]

This error happens due to a local misconfiguration, please refer to the issue queue for Android:

https://bitbucket.org/MartinFelis/love- ... ersion-520