In order to use the Android and Palm templates described in the cross platform mobile development posting you must first have installed the supporting SDKs.  These instructions will guild you.

Installing the Android SDK

for

the QuickConnectFamily

1. Go to http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html and download the android SDK installer
2. Rename the android-sdk-mac folder to be AndroidSDK
3. Move the AndroidSDK folder to the /Developer directory (no spaces)
4. Open the terminal application
5. Change directories into the AndroidSDK folder (Enter:  cd /Developer/AndroidSDK)
6. Run the Android SDK downloader (Enter:   tools/android update sdk)
7. Reject all packages except the Android 2.0 API 5 and the Google APIs Android API 5.  Earlier versions don't have vital components for creating QuickConnectFamily applications.  By rejecting them you will save space on your drive.
8. Create a Virtual Device by selecting Virtual Device in the left panel and then the New button on the right.
9. Name the Virtual Device QCAndroidVirtualDevice
10. Select the Google APIs level 5 target as seen in the image below.
11. Select Create AVD at the bottom of the screen.

Important Android Notice!

The Android tools from Google have some stability issues.  The emulator will regularly become unresponsive to the Android command line tools used by the QCAndroid template and the Eclipse plugin.  When this happens the emulator may not respond to uninstall, install, or launch application commands.  When this happens you must quit and restart the emulator application.  The re-run from within the template.

Installing the Palm SDK

for

the QuickConnectFamily

1. Go to http://developer.palm.com/ and select Download
2. Follow the instructions given to download the SDK
3. Download and install VirtualBox
4. Run the Palm installer