Setting up your android tools ;]

Guys im again informing you this is not a tutorial for development, only things covered in this post will be about setting up your android tools.
Further posts may even dig deeper in android forensics.

So for even starting up with your setup you should first decide about your platform. I would recommend mac or a linux box, and this tutorial is also following the same. But windows guys dont feel bad, comment below and i will respond with solutions and help.

So guys if you are familiar with Linux then its a plus point, if you dont then also its not a major issue, you can catch up any time you want. Download any iso of a Linux distribution of your preference. I would recommend Ubuntu, its a bit rookie friendly.
heres the link download
These distros are available in livecd format but you will require a system with installation done because you want your changes to be persistent.

Daring new guys can surely install it on a system, but if you are scared of blowing of your close-to-your-heart windows installation then virtualization solutions are always present.

You can try out virtual-box or vmware-player both are excellent.

I wont be guiding for with a linux installation, so google it.

So, lets assume now you have a working linux distribution on a disk or virtually, or maybe you are on the classier side and giving a smirk with a mac.
But mac guys take care and check out the documentation because im not helping.

linux guys now fire up your terminal.
If you are on an older version of ubuntu say before 11.04, then you probably on gnome2 enviroment so go to applications under accesories  or system tools there will be terminal, on a newer distro, guys just hit your windows key and type in terminal it will be there.


so you have your terminal opened up.

now lets resolve the dependencies required to run our sdk.

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apt-get install default-jre

&& and if you are on a 64 bit machine like me then also

apt-get install ia32-libs

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Now we require our sdk
you can get it from

http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

As we are working on linux so fetch the required tar file and place it in a
folder of your choice.

Usually additional installation are done under /opt directory but you can feel free to put it anywhere, for the rest of the post i wil be keeping it in /opt.

gain the required priviledges for that folder and continue to extract it.

for newbies please just right click and follow it.
for guys who are comfortable and wanna learn do this
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reach your directory and

do

tar zxvf android-sdk_r18-linux.tgz

the no. after r may vary for you depending on when are you viewing this
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now cd into the directory issue ls command

now some of the sub-directories are visible.
first and the most important utility require is adb, but unfortunately, it has been shifted to platforms folder that means we have to download it.
For that go into tools directory and enter ./android.

Another screen will pop up showing a gui like this select Android platform tools and then click on install package.

let it download the required package.

After its done, go back to upper directory and then into platform-tools and issue ls command.

So here we are, our two of the most important tools that we require are here.
adb and fastboot.

Now you can issue command ./adb devices but no devices will be shown if not

connected in debugging mode,

here is how you can put your android in debugging mode go to settings/application/development and then select Android debugging.

so now your device is ready,
now try again, it should show it now.,

now you can issue ./adb shell command too, as tis the only device connected it will drop down its shell only,
now its upto you how you explore into.

and we have the android shell..


Plz do follow the post nxt post regarding android will go into forensics of its filesystem.

Thanks for reading
B-)