We are also going to install Android 5.01 or API 21, so we've SDK platform. The Android SDK tools are already installed, but we are going to install the platform tools and the build tools. We're going to go ahead and deselect all, because we do not need everything. Now that it is installed, we are ready to start the SDK manager. This will take just a few moments to move everything into its appropriate places.

We're going to copy that, then, we're going to click 'next.' We'll accept the default here.

We are going to make a special note of the destination folder, because we're going to need it in just a moment to set some environment variables. We're going to install it just for this user. Once this has completed its download, we're going to double click and run it. A click on this executable and it will start the download once we have accepted the terms and conditions. What we are going to do is to go all the way to the bottom of the page to other downloads, and we are going to download the windows installer. From here, we are going to click 'get the SDK.' We could download Android studio, but for what we are trying to accomplish, this is unnecessary and it would just take longer to download and to install. In this lesson, we are going to learn how to install the Android SDK on windows.

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