Development Environment Setup

Having no experience in doing development on a Mac, this is a new experience for me.

I have spent over 11 hours getting my machine set up and figuring out how it all works together and I have not written a single line of code yet. I should not be surprised by this, I have been writing code on PC’s since the early 90’s and oh, how the memory fades at the learning curve.

So what have I accomplished so far?

• Eclipse Classic installed.
• The Android SDK installed and all of the Android/Google APIs downloaded.
• Git Installed
• BitBucket repository set up
• SourceTree (for remote repository management) installed and set up
• eGit (the Git add-in) for Eclipse installed.

And I have figured out how to …

• Create an empty repository in BitBucket via the web UI
• Create an empty repository in BitBucket via the SourceTree GUI
• Clone a BitBucket repository (empty) down to my Mac (no UI)
• Clone a BitBucket repository down to my Mac via SourceTree
• Create an Eclipse project and tie it to the repository from BitBucket
• Use SourceTree to index, commit and push back to BitBucket

And from the other direction..

• Create a Git Repository via eGit inside of Eclipse
• Create a project, in Eclipse, and via eGit add it to the local Git repository
• Index and Commit and then push the now, non empty project up to BitBucket
• Import an  (empty) cloned repository and then add a project to it.

Whew.
Now, I can start to write code!