CODEWITHSUNDEEP
androidsdk
insomnia
insomnia

Reputation: 510

Android SDK "System Images, AVD's, etc) are they system dependent?

Right now I have Ubuntu, and Windows 7 Dual booted on my laptop. Both of which have Android SDK set up on them.

But when I had a very fast wifi network, I downloaded and installed all of the system images and everything else that was available for download, but only on my Ubuntu's Android SDK.

So since it was like 1.5GB of downloads, I am curious if they are dependent on the Linux system, and wouldn't work on Windows?

I am just curious if, instead of re-downloading all of that again, would I be able to transfer all the downloaded files from the SDK and transfer them onto my Windows Android SDK? Or would there be a compatibility issue, as if they will only work on the Linux System?

Thanks for your time guys.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1861

Answers (3)

Coyote21
Coyote21

Reputation: 462

Well if you go to the place where all the platform sdks are downloaded, that is http://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/repository-7.xml, you can browse through all system images, avd's, platforms, platform-tools, tools, etc.

So if you go to the sdk-archive xml element, of the things that you want to download, then you can check out the dependencies of the download in terms of architecture and operating system, so anything that has arch="any" and os="any" is effectively platform independent, and that counts for system images, samples, platforms, etc.

Also, if you are curious about where the extra stuff comes from, you can check out http://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/addons_list-2.xml, and follow the link list, as usual an relative path in both repository-7.xml and addons_list-2.xml means that you should append http://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/ to the relative path.

Upvotes: 1

Haresh Chaudhary
Haresh Chaudhary

Reputation: 4400

I don't think so that you will be able to use the Ubuntu's Android SDK updates in Windows 's Android SDK.
As Android provides different SDKS for different platforms,you will have to redo all that you have done for Ubuntu's Android SDK.

Upvotes: 0

user827992
user827992

Reputation: 1753

The Android SDK is not system independent.

The configuration files of your AVD are not system independent ( mainly because of the filesystem changes ).

The images of your AVD are system independent.

Upvotes: 1

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