i thought i already edited my post with this, but i did get it working... sort of
the sdk setup nor android.bat still don't do anything, but the "android sdk and avd manager" started when launched from eclipse and i was able to add my targets there as well as create and build a project (hello world) in eclipse
I tried Eclipse however when you create a new Android project, it requires a target which is not setup dues not a problem running the android command:
android create avd --target 2 --name my_avd
How did you resolve it
PS Here is what I get exactly when running the command:
C:\Android\tools>android create avd --target 2 --name my_avd
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/android/a
rchquery/Main (Unsupported major.minor version 49.0)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
SWT folder '' does not exist.
Please set ANDROID_SWT to point to the folder containing swt.jar for your platfo
rm.