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+name = Android Mode
+authorList = [The Processing Foundation](http://android.processing.org/)
+url = https://github.com/processing/processing-android
+sentence = Create projects with Processing for Android devices
+paragraph = Android Mode has been around since Processing 1.5, but we have moved it to a separate download so that it can be developed indepdendently of the PDE and the core.
+download=http://android.processing.org/AndroidMode.zip
+version = 1
+prettyVersion = 1