If you downloaded Android Studio, extract it and then see [Setting up Android Studio](#setting-up-android-studio).
If you instead chose to download the commoand-line SDK tools, see [Setting up the SDK Tools](#setting-up-the-sdk-tools).
##Setting up Android Studio
1. Launch Android Studio, which will start a first-launch wizard.
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7. Use the SDK Manager to get necessary dependencies, as described in [Getting Dependencies](#getting-dependencies).
8. When done, follow the steps in [Readme.md](Readme.md#installation-on-android) to compile and deploy the application.
##Setting up the SDK Tools
1. In `Source/Android`, create a file called `local.properties`.
2. Add a single line: `sdk.dir=<sdk-path>`, where `<sdk-path>` is the path where you extracted the SDK Tools package.
3. Follow the steps in [Readme.md](Readme.md#installation-on-android) to compile and deploy the application.
##Executing Gradle Tasks
In Android Studio, you can find a list of possible Gradle tasks in a tray at the top right of the screen:
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Most dependencies for the Android project are supplied by Gradle automatically. However, Android platform libraries (and a few Google-supplied supplementary libraries) must be downloaded through the Android package manager.
1. Launch the Android SDK Manager from the commandline by executing `<sdk-path>/tools/android`, or by clicking on its icon in Android Studio's main toolbar:
1. Launch the Android SDK Manager by clicking on its icon in Android Studio's main toolbar:
![Android Studio Package Icon][package-icon]
2. At the bottom of the window, click "Deselect All", and then "Updates".
3. Install or update the following packages:
* SDK Platform, under "Android 5.0.1 (API 21)". This will allow compiling apps that target Lollipop.
* Android Support Repository
* Android Support Library
* Google Repository
2. Install or update the SDK Platform. Choose the API level selected as [compileSdkVersion](Source/Android/app/build.gradle#L5).
3. Install or update the SDK Tools. CMake, LLDB and NDK. If you don't use android-studio, please check out https://github.com/Commit451/android-cmake-installer.
In the future, if the project targets a newer version of Android, or use newer versions of the tools/build-tools packages, it will be necessary to use this tool to download updates.