# Installation questions

**URL:** <https://forum.odk-x.org/t/installation-questions/391>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [November 7, 2018, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.odk-x.org/t/installation-questions/391 "2018-11-07T18:30:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![elmps2018](https://odkx.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.odk-x.org/elmps2018/32/105_2.png) [@elmps2018](https://forum.odk-x.org/u/elmps2018)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 1:14am UTC](https://forum.odk-x.org/t/installation-questions/391/2 "2018-11-08T01:14:30Z")

</div>

Hi Rob!

Great to hear you are starting in on ODK2.

One thing I am going to suggest you start with is some of the initial setup guides as slides we did here:

> [@Community contributions to upcoming ODK 2.0 documentation refresh](https://forum.odk-x.org/t/community-contributions-to-upcoming-odk-2-0-documentation-refresh/276/2):
>
> Hi Everyone! This past summer we did a two-day training on ODK 2.0 and wanted to share the materials here. I am going to share them in two batches. This first batch is a series of slides for workflow and setup in ODK 2.0. We have a second batch of materials forthcoming of hands-on exercises (and excel “solutions”!) in programming the survey, but we gave the training in rev208 so the team is chipping away at updating those to rev218. Stay tuned! Slides are numbered in sequence: [01\_Introduction…](https://odkx.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/2X/4/4c7549f3e871e56470b5d09b166489309c6098f7.pptx)

There are a number of steps, including the ones around installing nodejs and grunt, as well as checking the version, that may help you with your initial problem getting grunt to open a chrome browser (particularly in the 02\_ slides).

I think the location/path for ODK2 is pretty flexible – we have stuck the app designer all sorts of places.  
We also have definitely renamed the app designer (often with the date of the version or the survey).

You can install either Android studio and then add on SDK packages or SDK directly, directions are in here:  
[https://docs.opendatakit.org/odk2/app-designer-prereqs/?highlight=sdk#android-sdk](https://docs.opendatakit.org/odk2/app-designer-prereqs/?highlight=sdk#android-sdk)  
I think you will still need adb, since that is how, say, you get the application on to a tablet.

Hope that helps you progress!

Best,  
Caroline

---

_[View the full topic](https://forum.odk-x.org/t/installation-questions/391)._