Time for action – installing Android packages
The SDK manager will give you a list of packages that you can check and install by performing the following steps:
- Check the following packages:
- Android SDK Tools
- Android SDK Platform-tools
- Anroid 4.1.2 (API 16) platform (except Google APIs)
- Android Support Library (in the
Extrasfolder) - Google USB Driver (in the
Extrasfolder) - The following screenshot depicts these packages:
- After checking all of the packages listed previously, click on Install 12 packages… (the total number may vary) and let the SDK manager run its course.
Tip
The future versions of the OUYA software may use a later version of the Android platform. For updated version numbers and instructions, refer to the documentation found at https://devs.ouya.tv/developers/docs/setup.
The packages include almost everything we need, but we need to manually configure the Android USB driver before it's ready to use, which is what we'll do next.
What just happened?
The Android SDK Manager is a wide repository of different packages that developers can install, update, and delete. We downloaded a version of Android that wasn't necessarily the most recent version; this is because each Android device is built with a specific supported version, and at the time of writing this, the OUYA supports Version 4.1.2.
As the OUYA software is updated, it's likely to change the supported version. While the installation instructions aren't likely to change much from this book, it is possible that the supported version number will change—updated information can always be found in the documentation on the OUYA developer portal.