android sdk and avd manager does not launch on windows 7 x64

Question

Can anyone please confirm if android development is not yet supported on windows 7 x64? I downloaded the sdk, but when I tried to launch the sdk and avd manager it fails to

Answer 1

What worked for me was adding the JAVA_HOME environment variable pointing to the jdk folder (in my case c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_04) and adding %JAVA_HOME%\bin to PATH variable