1 page.title=Samples 2 page.tags="example","code" 3 @jd:body 4 5 <p>To help you understand some fundamental Android APIs and coding practices, a variety of sample 6 code is available from the Android SDK Manager. Each version of the Android platform available 7 from the SDK Manager offers its own set of sample apps.</p> 8 9 <p>To download the samples:</p> 10 <ol> 11 <li>Launch the Android SDK Manager. 12 <ul> 13 <li>On Windows, double-click the SDK Manager.exe file at the root of the Android SDK 14 directory.</li> 15 <li>On Mac or Linux, open a terminal to the {@code tools/} directory in the 16 Android SDK, then execute {@code android sdk}.</ul> 17 </li> 18 <li>Expand the list of packages for the latest Android platform.</li> 19 <li>Select and download <em>Samples for SDK</em>.</li> 20 </ol> 21 22 <p>When the download is complete, you can find the source code for all samples at this location:</p> 23 24 <p style="margin-left:2em"> 25 <code><sdk>/samples/android-<version>/</code> 26 </p> 27 28 <p>The {@code <version>} number corresponds to the platform's 29 <a href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.html#ApiLevels">API level</a>.</p> 30 31 <p>You can easily create new Android projects with the downloaded samples, modify them 32 if you'd like, and then run them on an emulator or device.</p>
