Android SDK Offline Installation

Steps for downloading android SDK Packages for offline use.

1] Download and install Android SDK and AVD Manager from
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

2] Download Eclipse IDE from
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

3] Downloading Eclipse ADT Plugin directly as an archive from

http://dl.google.com/android/ADT-16.0.1.zip

To Install this plugin. GO to Eclipse > Help > Install New Software > and select ADT-16.0.1.zip.

4] Go to https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/repository-5.xml
All the Android SDK Packages are listed in this XML file.


5] Locate the block of SDK version you want to download. Suppose you want to download the SDK version 2.3.3 then locate the block that looks like

<sdk:platform>
    <sdk:version>2.3.3</sdk:version>
    <sdk:api-level>10</sdk:api-level>
    <sdk:codename/>
    <sdk:revision>02</sdk:revision>
    <sdk:min-tools-rev>8</sdk:min-tools-rev>
    <sdk:description>Android SDK Platform 2.3.3._r2</sdk:description>
    <sdk:desc-url>http://developer.android.com/sdk/</sdk:desc-url>
    <sdk:archives>
        <sdk:archive arch="any" os="any">
            <sdk:size>85470907</sdk:size>
            <sdk:checksum
               type="sha1">887e37783ec32f541ea33c2c649dda648e8e6fb3</sdk:checksum>
            <sdk:url>android-2.3.3_r02-linux.zip</sdk:url>
        </sdk:archive>
    </sdk:archives>
    <sdk:layoutlib>
        <sdk:api>4</sdk:api>
    </sdk:layoutlib>
</sdk:platform>

5] Append the repository url with <sdk:url> value.

So we get the new url of the SDK package as :
https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/android-2.3.3_r02-linux.zip

6] Download the SDK Package.

7] Extract the downloaded SDK package to C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platforms\

8] Locate the block of Platform-Tools. As shown bellow
<!-- PLATFORM-TOOLS ........................ -->
<sdk:platform-tool>
    <!-- Generated at Thu Dec 15 16:55:10 2011 from git_ics-mr1 @ 238992 -->
    <sdk:revision>10</sdk:revision>
    <sdk:archives>
        <sdk:archive arch="any" os="windows">
            <sdk:size>10007508</sdk:size>
            <sdk:checksum type="sha1">
            44ecef94d0ebf1fc4c8fc3f7f0bf1679618b1e94</sdk:checksum>
            <sdk:url>platform-tools_r10-windows.zip</sdk:url>
        </sdk:archive>
        <sdk:archive arch="any" os="linux">
            <sdk:size>9930673</sdk:size>
            <sdk:checksum type="sha1">
            5f6a36c5d5e51cfa51a964c0365a0533784b8c9f</sdk:checksum>
            <sdk:url>platform-tools_r10-linux.zip</sdk:url>
        </sdk:archive>
        <sdk:archive arch="any" os="macosx">
            <sdk:size>10001226</sdk:size>
            <sdk:checksum type="sha1">
            84fc063c555d2a84d8e8fa2092c1635c6bbe940f</sdk:checksum>
            <sdk:url>platform-tools_r10-macosx.zip</sdk:url>
        </sdk:archive>
    </sdk:archives>
</sdk:platform-tool>

9] To download the platform-tools, Append the repository url with <sdk:url> value.
The url of platform-tools for windows os : https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools_r10-windows.zip

10] Download the platform-tools and extract it to
C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk

11] Open SDK Manager from Start Menu. You will notice that the Packages list shows Android 2.3.3 SDK Platform Status as Installed.

12] Open AVD Manager from Start Menu and create a new device and choose the target as the downloaded SDK(i.e Android 2.3.3)

13] Done.

Now you can start developing android apps in Eclipse IDE.