27-02-2013, 04:51 PM
Developer Tools
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INTRODUCTION
The Android Developer Tools (ADT) plugin for Eclipse provides a professional-grade development environment for building Android apps. It's a full Java IDE with advanced features to help you build, test, debug, and package your Android apps.
Free, open-source, and runs on most major OS platforms.
To get started, download the Android SDK.
Full Java IDE
• Android-specific refactoring, quick fixes, integrated navigation between Java and XML resources.
• Enhanced XML editors for Android XML resources.
• Static analysis tools to catch performance, usability, and correctness problems.
• Build support for complex projects, command-line support for CI through Ant. Includes ProGuard and app-signing.
• Template-based wizard to create standard Android projects and components.
Graphical UI Builders
• Build rich Android UI with drag and drop.
• Visualize your UI on tablets, phones, and other devices. Switch themes, locales, even platform versions instantly, without building.
• Visual refactoring lets you extracts layout for inclusion, convert layouts, extract styles.
• Editor support for working with custom UI components.
On-device Developer Options
• Enable debugging over USB.
• Quickly capture bug reports onto the device.
• Show CPU usage on screen.
• Draw debugging information on screen such as layout bounds, updates on GPU views and hardware layers, and other information.
• Plus many more options to simulate app stresses or enable debugging options.
To access these settings, open the Developer options in the system Settings. On Android 4.2 and higher, the Developer options screen is hidden by default. To make it available, go toSettings > About phone and tap Build number seven times. Return to the previous screen to find Developer options.