Developing Android on Sublime Text 2

android, installation, sublimetext2

Solution

I know that I'm supposed to download and set up the Android SDK, but how, where and why?

Visit the official site and follow the instructions for "other/existing IDE". I don't think anyone wrote specific instructions for using Sublime yet though (since you haven't found one).

And how do I compile my projects and run them? This is a complete mystery to me.

As others already answered, other than a JDK, you will most likely need to download and run Ant from the command line.

Problem

I wanted to start developing for Android, but found it terribly hard to set everything up so it would work on Sublime Text 2. I know that I'm supposed to download and set up the Android SDK, but how, where and why? And how do I compile my projects and run them? This is a complete mystery to me. I've been researching this for about 3 hours now and haven't had any success. Could anyone of you, please, help me by guide me through the process of setting everything up in ST2? Please note that I do not want to use Eclipse IDE. I've grown to love ST2 and I'd like to stick with it.

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