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Learning Pentesting for Android Devices

By : Aditya Gupta
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Learning Pentesting for Android Devices

By: Aditya Gupta

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning Pentesting for Android Devices
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up the development environment


In order to build Android applications or create an Android virtual device, we need to set up the development environment in order for those applications to run. So, the first thing we need to do is download Java Development Kit (JDK), which includes Java Runtime Environment:

  1. To download JDK, we need to go to http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html and download JDK 7 depending on the platform we are on.

    It is as simple as downloading it and running the downloaded executable file. In the following screenshot, you can see Java being installed on my system:

  2. Once we have downloaded and installed JDK, we need to set up the environment variables on our system so that Java can be executed from any path.

    For Windows users, we need to right-click on the My Computer icon and select the Properties option.

  3. Next, we need to select the Advanced system settings option from the top tabs list:

  4. Once we are in the System Properties dialog, in the...