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Setup Mobile Development Environment on Windows

ismisepaul edited this page Oct 26, 2026 · 5 revisions

Important

This wiki is being retired. The Security Shepherd documentation has moved to https://owasp.github.io/SecurityShepherd/. This page describes older versions of Security Shepherd, and will be replaced by a link to the new site once 4.0 is released.

Tools Required

1.Download + Install Android Studio

2.Download and Install Virtualbox

3.Download and Install Git

Setup Steps

1.Open a folder of your choice

2.Right click and select "Git Bash Here"

3.Type "Git init"

4.Type "Git pull" OR "Git clone" https://github.com/OWASP/SecurityShepherd.git"

5.Open Android Studio and select open to work on existing project in the git repo or new project to create a new mobile Lesson/Challenge.

Android Emulation Notes

To test your app you can use:

  • The Android emulator which comes with Android Studio
  • The Mobile Shepherd VM which requires Virtualbox
  • Genymotion which requires Virtualbox

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