[GUIDE] Setting Up A Build Environment on OS X 10.9 Mavericks

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/**
 * if you don't follow my instructions exactly as they are written, several things will happen:
 * 1 - If you don't know what you're doing, it won't work
 * 2 - I won't respond with help, since everything you need IS RIGHT HERE 
 **/

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• XCode 5
• Android SDK (includes ADB and Fastboot)
• repo
• Homebrew
• Many, many packages required for building Android

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XCode is roughly a 4 GB download from the AppStore. Once it is downloaded, it will start an installation process, where it will download more software and install XCode on your system. Depending on your hardware, and your internet speeds, this could take a long time.

Apple XCode 5 for OS X 10.9 Mavericks

Or just search for "XCode" in the App Store

Once XCode is downloaded and installed, you can pretty much forget about it. Just don't uninstall it.

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Java for OS X 2013-005

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Android SDK​

• Extract the contents of the Android SDK download archive to a new folder and name it android-sdk
• Create a new folder in your HOME directory ( ~/ ) named android [your home directory can be found by opening Finder, and clicking on your username in the column to the left]
• Move the android-sdk folder INTO the android folder you just made in your Home directory ( it will be ~/android/android-sdk )
• Using Finder, navigate to the android/android-sdk/tools folder.
• Double-click the "android" file and go through the installer for Android SDK

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ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go/install)"

This will begin the download and installation of Brew.

Depending on your hardware and internet connection, this could take a bit.

Now, we need to run a few commands through Brew, just to make sure everything is installed correctly. Enter the following into the Terminal:

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brew outdated && brew update && brew upgrade && brew doctor

After running brew doctor, you should receive a message saying the follow: Your system is ready to brew.

Now, we can install the packages required to build Android.

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Enter the following command into the Terminal:

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brew install git coreutils findutils gnu-sed gnupg pngcrush python

This WILL take a while.

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Open Terminal and enter the following:

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mkdir -p ~/.bin

curl http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo

chmod a+x ~/bin/repo

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We need to create a CASE-SENSITIVE image for our development. Android cannot be build on case-insensitive images, so we need to make one.

Enter the following into the Terminal.

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hdiutil create -type SPARSE -fs "Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+" -size 60g -volname "android" -attach ~/Desktop/Android

I have it set to be 60 GB here, but you can increase or decrease the size to whatever you choose, simply change the "60" to any number of GB you want it to be. I generally use 100 GB.

Once the command is done, you will see a new .img on your desktop, called android.sparseimage. This is the volume you just created that will store your source. To mount it, you just simply double-click it.

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Enter the following into Terminal:

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~/.bash_profile

Now copy / paste this into the terminal, so it's in the bash_profile you're creating:

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export PATH=~/bin:$PATH
export PATH=~/android/android-sdk/sdk/platform-tools:$PATH
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
export BUILD_MAC_SDK_EXPERIMENTAL=1
export LC_CTYPE=C 
export LANG=C

Save it by pressing Ctrl + X , then Ctrl + Y

Once back at the command line in Terminal, enter the following:

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source ~/.bash_profile

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