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What do you need for developing Android apps on Windows?

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First of all you need Android Studio and for Windows you can download Android Studio 3.0 here. Of course you need to accept the license terms. https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html Once you download the file you will be taken to the installing directions page here. https://developer.android.com/studio/install.html Review this page's image here: Run the downloaded executable and follow the wizard.

Get started with Thimble by registering

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Just signing up for Thimble gets you this page... I signed up and this is where I landed. It is an untitled project. ThimbleStart_0 The file icon brings this up. ThimbleStart_1 Click Add a Tutorial adds this page-tutorial.html ThimbleStart_2 You can type over Untitled with a name of your own and click Save. ThimbleStart_3 Let us see what Publish would do. Click Publish. Provide some description here: ThimbleStart_4 Click Publish It gets published here: https://thimbleprojects.org/mysorian/344268 The tutorial page is found at: https://thimbleprojects.org/mysorian/344268/tutorial.html Very fast, no fuss. That's great. Look forward to more on Thimble at this site.

Get Thimble to design your web pages now!

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It is from Mozilla.org. It is free and has many cool features. It's Remix mode allows you easily modify existing Thimble projects to suit your requirements. Thimble is a one-stop program bundling code editor, web server, web browser and developer tools. It has an unbelievable number of cool features. Sure, I will test drive it! Make a change and see your changes in real time Has handy code snippets Has a built-in JavaScript console Add your files (drag and drop) and manage them Has both dark and light themes Embedded tutorials-follow or create OK Get code hints Edit CSS right in the HTML file Publish to Web Pick colors in the editor Test project on your mobile device Has a DOM inspector to work with HTML elements Has Image filters Take selfies You start here . Here is a video that explains it all:

Compiling a Typescript file using the command-line

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Please r ead the post about downloading the latest Typescript here. Once you have downloaded Typescript file, you can compile it using the command tsc from the C:\ prompt. Here is a Typescript file , Person.ts: -------------------------------- interface Person {     age: number,     name: string,     say(): string } let mike = {     age: 25,     name:"Mike",     say: function() {         return "My name is " + this.name +                " and I'm " + this.age + " years old!"     } } function sayIt(person: Person) {     return person.say(); } -------------------- Save it to a location of your choice as shown. Typescriptsample_0 Now compile it using the command tsc as shown here: ---------- C:\Users\Owner> tsc Person.ts C:\Users\Owner>dir ------------ The program compiles it to a JavaScript file as shown: ----------- Typescriptsample_1.png The JavaScript file now reads as shown: ---------

Download now: Typescript 2.5 is available

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You can download TypeScript2.5 right now. http://www.typescriptlang.org/#download-links TypeScript2-5_0 You can download the command-line TypeScript compiler as a Node.js package.  It is supported in more programs including Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio 2015. ----------- Your environment has been set up for using Node.js 6.11.1 (x64) and npm. C:\Users\Owner>npm install -g typescript C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Roaming\npm\tsserver -> C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\typescript\bin\tsserver C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Roaming\npm\tsc -> C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\typescript\bin\tsc C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Roaming\npm `-- typescript@2.5.3 ---------------------------------------- One way to download Node.js is described here ( http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2016/05/get-nodejs-tools-for-visual-studio.html ). How do you use the compiler? Create a program with extension .ts and you can call it from command line using the command > tsc pr