installing android offline is hard[obsolete]

Question

i am a student in africa and in our land, there actually exist slow and expensive internet connections, which is why we tremble in fear whenever we hear the word "online repository" method of installing software. Damn, that usually means you have to look elsewhere.

The problem.(i cant install android without connecting eclipse to the internet)

It is possible to manually download individual components as .zip files but there is no way of installing them into android eg i have managed to download

• platform-tools_r03-windows
• android-sdk_r10-windows
• etc

but no matter what i do, i can't get android to recognise them as components. It seems tens of thousands of other developers have a similar problem (see below)

This qn has 10k views(meaning 10k people had a similar problem)

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If someone has actually ever installed android without connecting eclipse to the internet, please let us know the magic you used. Thanks in advance :)

EDIT:
if someone out there is still interested check out http://qdevarena.blogspot.com/2010/05/download-android-sdk-standalone-for.html and make sure your folder structure is as shown in http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html

Answer 1

For SDK and platform tools you can just extract the zip content, Eclipse has nothing to do here.

For Eclipse ADT plugin:

1. Download the zip file from http://dl.google.com/android/ADT-10.0.1.zip
2. Help -> Install New Software -> Add
3. Select Archive and then provide the location of the zip file

These steps are clearly explained in Eclipse ADT documentation.