The easiest thing to do is to download them all to a folder where you will be developing for Android. There are a few things you will need to download to set up your PC for developing for Android. I'm writing this almost as I do it for the first time - so rather than a confident, expert tutorial, we may be in for some bumps along the way - so hold on tight! History Rather than typing them in, or copying from the article (which may be hard if your pathnames aren't the same) I recommend using Cmd's lovely feature whereby you can drag-and-drop a file or folder from a Finder window to a Cmd window, and it will insert the path for you. Some of the information you will need to type in while following along will involve pathnames on your Pc. There are a few tricks for new players, and gotchas to be avoided, which I've tried to point out. I'm writing this as a step-by-step guide for people who, like me, are unfamiliar with Android development. (For Mac users see my article at for details on setting up for a Mac) Using this article I chose to look at Cocos2d-X specifically because it allows me to write a single code-base, using C++, that will run on just about everything.Īlthough I use a Mac at home, I'm a Windows developer by profession - and I'd like my games to work on as many platforms as possible - so I figured IO'd set up the development environment in Windows too! Do you write the same thing in Objective-C, C++ (or C#) and Java? Do you stick to HTML and Javascript? One of the common problems in mobile App development is cross-platform development. Setting up the development environment on a PC to develop for Android isn't too hard - just follow these steps & you'll be writing C++ programs for Andorid and Windows in no time! (You still need a Mac to compile for Mac or IOS - but it's the same source code) Background While the same code-base can be used across platforms, the development environment is necessarily different - usually Visual Studio on Windows for Windows Phone, XCode on Mac for i-Devices and Eclipse on almost anything for Android. With Cocos2d-x (V3.2 at the time of writing) it is now possible to develop truly native cross-platform games in C++. Wouldn't it be great if you could write a program and just have it run on Android, Windows Phone, Windows desktop, Mac, and IOS?

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