This blog will cover getting the development environment set up on a Windows 10 development machine. It also covers  (an issue I wrestled with for some time) getting the target connected to the development machine. The second blog in this sequence will cover app development and deployment. Given my Windows background, it might have made sense to do the app development in Xamarin, the cross platform .NET app development environment for which you can simultaneously develop code for Windows, Android and Apple. You can also code in Visual Studio and deploy to an Android device. That will be the topic of a subsequent blog as I wish in this first instance to use the generic Android develop environment (Android Studio). I will then cover Android specific development in Visual Studio (2013) using a plugin. The hard part of the installation is getting ADB set up.

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