Installing the SDK

These instructions have been deprecated since the Linux SDK won't work on OpenSolaris (unlike IntelliJ or MPS)... I will post updated OpenSolaris instructions once I figure it out.

1. Download the Linux version of the SDK from here.
2. open a terminal
3. pfexec sudo su - root
4. cd /opt
5. unzip ~username/Download/android-sdk-linux_x86-1.0_r2.zip (or whatever the name currently is)
6. chown -R root:staff android-sdk-linux_x86-1.0_r2
7. ln -s android-sdk-linux_x86-1.0_r2 android-sdk
8. exit
9. vi ~/.bashrc (or gedit .profile or whatever)

• add: export ANDROID_HOME=/opt/android-sdk
• add: export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools

Android support for IntelliJ 8

I was trying to install this plugin to enable Android support in IntelliJ 8 (Linux version on OpenSolaris). It kept failing to install the plugin.

The terminal showed:
Execute unzip[/export/home/malachi/.IntelliJIdea80/system/plugins/Android_Support_6217.zip, /export/home/malachi/.IntelliJIdea80/config/plugins]
Execute delete[/export/home/malachi/.IntelliJIdea80/system/plugins/Android_Support_6217.zip]

Solution:
Extract the lib/android.jar from Android_Support_6217.zip directly into ~/.IntelliJIdea80/config/plugins (not into ~/.IntelliJIdea80/config/plugins/lib)
Start IntelliJ