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@@ -22,11 +22,9 @@ page.title=Adding SDK Components
</div>
</div>
-<p>Adding and updating components in your Android SDK is fast and easy. To
-perform an update, use the <strong>Android SDK and AVD Manager</strong> to
-install or update the individual SDK components that you need. The Android SDK
-and AVD Manager tool is included in the <a href="index.html">Android SDK
-download</a>.</p>
+<p>Adding and updating components in your Android SDK is fast and easy. To add or
+update the individual SDK components that you need, use the <em>Android SDK and AVD
+Manager</em> (included in the SDK Tools).</p>
<p>It only takes a couple of clicks to install individual versions of the
Android platform, new development tools, new documentation, and SDK add-ons. The
@@ -34,32 +32,17 @@ new SDK components are automatically installed into your existing SDK directory,
so you don't need to update your development environment to specify a new SDK
location.</p>
-<p>Because each version of the Android platform can be installed as an
-individual component of your SDK, you can customize your development environment
-to the Android platforms you are targetting. Testing your app on multiple
-versions of the platform is very important in order to successfully operate on
-as many devices as possible. Be sure to install each version of the Android
-platform with which your app is compatible, then test your apps on <a
-href="{@docRoot}guide/developing/tools/avd.html">AVDs</a> that run each
-platform.</p>
-
-<p>If you are just getting started and you are not sure what components to install,
-see <a href="installing.html#components">Adding Platforms and Other
-Components</a> for information. </p>
-
-<p>If you develop applications using Eclipse, you may also need to update your
-ADT plugin when you update your development tools, in order to compile against
-a new version of the platform. See the revisions listed in the <a
-href="{@docRoot}sdk/tools-notes.html">SDK Tools</a> document for ADT
-Plugin compatibility.</p>
-
-<div style="TEXT-ALIGN:left; width:600px;">
-<img src="{@docRoot}images/sdk_manager_packages.png"
-style="padding-bottom:0;margin-bottom:0;" />
-<p class="caption" style="margin:0 0 1.5em 1em;padding:0 0 0
-1em;"><strong>Figure 1.</strong> The Android SDK and AVD Manager's
-<strong>Available Packages</strong>
-panel, which shows the SDK components that are
+<p>If you're setting up your Android SDK for the first time,
+see <a href="{@docRoot}sdk/installing.html#components">Installing the SDK</a> for information about
+what components to install.</p>
+
+<p class="note"><strong>Note:</strong> If you develop in Eclipse, you might also need
+to update your ADT plugin when you update your development tools. See the revisions listed in the
+<a href="{@docRoot}sdk/eclipse-adt.html">ADT Plugin for Eclipse</a> document.</p>
+
+<img src="{@docRoot}images/sdk_manager_packages.png" alt="" />
+<p class="img-caption"><strong>Figure 1.</strong> The Android SDK and AVD Manager's
+<strong>Available Packages</strong> panel, which shows the SDK components that are
available for you to download into your environment. </p>
</div>
@@ -68,13 +51,7 @@ available for you to download into your environment. </p>
<p>The Android SDK and AVD Manager is the tool that you use to install and
upgrade SDK components in your development environment. </p>
-<p>You can access the tool in any of three ways:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>If you are developing in the Eclipse IDE with the ADT Plugin, you can access
-the tool directly from the Eclipse UI.</li>
-<li>On Windows only, you can launch he tool by double-clicking a script file.</li>
-<li>In all environments, you can access the tool from a command line.</li>
-</ul>
+<p>You can launch the Android SDK and AVD Manager in one of the following ways.</p>
<h4>Launching from Eclipse/ADT</h4>
@@ -122,7 +99,7 @@ complete.</p>
from the SDK repository.</li>
<li>Select the component(s) you'd like to install and click <strong>Install
Selected</strong>. If you aren't sure which packages to select, read <a
- href="installing.html#which">Which components do I need?</a>.</li>
+ href="installing.html#which">Recommended Components</a>.</li>
<li>Verify and accept the components you want and click <strong>Install
Accepted</strong>. The components will now be installed into your existing
Android SDK directories.</li>