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16 <p>The Android Developer Tools (ADT) plugin for Eclipse provides
17 a professional-grade development environment for building
18 Android apps. It's a full Java IDE with advanced features to help you build, test, debug,
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20 <p>Free, open-source, and runs on most major OS platforms.<br>To get started,
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Scott Main50e990c2012-06-21 17:14:39 -070028<h3>Full Java IDE</h3>
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Scott Main002618b2012-11-09 20:47:51 -080031 <li>Android-specific refactoring, quick fixes, integrated navigation between Java and XML resources.</li>
32 <li>Enhanced XML editors for Android XML resources.</li>
33 <li>Static analysis tools to catch performance, usability, and correctness problems.</li>
Scott Main50e990c2012-06-21 17:14:39 -070034 <li>Build support for complex projects, command-line support for CI through Ant. Includes ProGuard and app-signing. </li>
Dirk Dougherty7547be02012-05-07 21:31:24 -070035 <li>Template-based wizard to create standard Android projects and components.</li>
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Scott Main50e990c2012-06-21 17:14:39 -070042<h3>Graphical UI Builders</h3>
Scott Main50e990c2012-06-21 17:14:39 -070043 <ul>
44 <li>Build rich Android UI with drag and drop.
Dirk Dougherty77cfe912012-07-11 16:07:32 -070045 <li>Visualize your UI on tablets, phones, and other devices. Switch themes, locales, even platform versions instantly, without building.</li>
Scott Main002618b2012-11-09 20:47:51 -080046 <li>Visual refactoring lets you extracts layout for inclusion, convert layouts, extract styles.</li>
47 <li>Editor support for working with custom UI components.</li>
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55<h3>On-device Developer Options</h3>
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57 <li>Enable debugging over USB.</li>
58 <li>Quickly capture bug reports onto the device.</li>
59 <li>Show CPU usage on screen.</li>
60 <li>Draw debugging information on screen such as layout bounds,
Scott Main5617b062012-11-13 07:39:35 -080061 updates on GPU views and hardware layers, and other information.</li>
Scott Main002618b2012-11-09 20:47:51 -080062 <li>Plus many more options to simulate app stresses or enable debugging options.</li>
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Scott Main5617b062012-11-13 07:39:35 -080064<p>To access these settings, open the <em>Developer options</em> in the
65system Settings. On Android 4.2 and higher, the Developer options screen is
Scott Main67ba5d12012-11-12 11:22:59 -080066hidden by default. To make it available, go to
67<b>Settings > About phone</b> and tap <b>Build number</b> seven times. Return to the previous
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Scott Main50e990c2012-06-21 17:14:39 -070078<h3>Develop on Hardware Devices</h3>
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81 <li>Use any commercial Android hardware device or multiple devices.</li>
Scott Main002618b2012-11-09 20:47:51 -080082 <li>Deploy your app to connected devices directy from the IDE.</li>
83 <li>Live, on-device debugging, testing, and profiling.</li>
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Scott Main50e990c2012-06-21 17:14:39 -070088<h3>Develop on Virtual Devices</h3>
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90 <li>Emulate any device. Use custom screen sizes, keyboards, and other hardware components. </li>
91 <li>Advanced hardware emulation, including camera, sensors, multitouch, telephony.</li>
Scott Main002618b2012-11-09 20:47:51 -080092 <li>Develop and test for broad device compatibility.</li>
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Scott Main50e990c2012-06-21 17:14:39 -0700100<h3>Powerful Debugging</h3>
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Scott Main002618b2012-11-09 20:47:51 -0800103 <li>Full Java debugger with on-device debugging and Android-specific tools.</li>
Dirk Dougherty7547be02012-05-07 21:31:24 -0700104 <li>Built-in memory analysis, performance/CPU profiling, OpenGL ES tracing.</li>
Scott Main50e990c2012-06-21 17:14:39 -0700105 <li>Graphical tools for debugging and optimizing UI, runtime inspecton of UI structure and performance.</li>
Scott Main002618b2012-11-09 20:47:51 -0800106 <li>Runtime graphical analysis of your app's network bandwidth usage.</li>
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Scott Main50e990c2012-06-21 17:14:39 -0700109<h3>Testing</h3>
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113 <li>Integrated reports using standard test UI.</li>
114 <li>Create and run unit tests on hardware devices or emulator.</li>
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120 <li>Support for compiling and packaging existing code written in C or C++.</li>
121 <li>Support for packaging multiple architectures in a single binary, for broad compatibility.</li>
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