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-Vanilla Music Player is a music player for Android
-
-To build, assuming you have the Android SDK installed and in your path:
-	android update project --path .
-	ant debug (or ant release)
-
-Javadocs can be generated using 'ant doc'
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+Vanilla Music Player is a music player for Android
+
+To build:
+
+ * Ensure you have JDK 6 or greater installed and in the path. JDK 6 is required
+for @Override annoations for interface methods.
+ * Ensure you have the Android SDK installed and in your path with platform
+android-11 or higher installed.
+ * Execute `android update project --path .` You must provide a `--target`
+parameter as well if you are not using platform 14.
+ * Execute `ant debug` (or `ant release`)
+
+Javadocs can be generated using `ant doc`