Eclipse project (ACM JAVA) as Android application

Eclipse project (ACM JAVA) as Android application - android

I made a little project on Eclipse with ACM Java. My question is, how can I
export it, or use the code I wrote to let it run on an Android system? I know that I can download things like SDK Manager and stuff, but it doesn't work me for really, and it got really frustrating to deal with it, although, I would need to write basically everything from scratch again. Is there an opportunity or do I need to write it in Android Studio to be able to publish it? I could use Unity, but in Unity I can write scripts in Java.

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New to android studio. Need advice

I learned android development on eclipse a long time ago. Recently I have some free time. So I decided to catch up on it again.
When checking for eclipse, I saw that it is not supported now and android studio is the new way.
My questions are...
Can I use the old eclipse's android SDK with android studio?
What are the most important changes I need to know?( basics)
Can android studio run on my old computer screen? With a resolution of 1024x800. Because it says on the site that it needs 1280*1024 at least.
Thanks in advance .

Yes it is possible to point Android Studio at pre installed SDK/NDK, but now they have really improved the packaging and downloading of this stuff, so I would say burn it all down and start fresh. Let Android Studio manage the SDK and it will be much easier.
Otherwise, its an IDE, pretty standard stuff. You'll have to learn gradle now to manage your project, which is the main change since Eclipse was using ant. And do get a better monitor :)

Yes, you just need to change the path specified in Studio to your old Sdk that you were using with eclipse and it should work
Apart from different key mappings for shortcuts (you can use eclipse shortcuts in Studio too, by changing editor settings). Except that nothing special, but you got lot more ammo now. You will learn gradually about tests and different configurations in Gradle build System
AFAIK, that shouldnt be a problem, just that it might looked a bit crammed up

Agree with yano, ditch the Eclipse SDKs if possible. The SDK manager is pretty hassle free on Android Studio.
Secondly, the biggest changes for me were the introduction of Gradle and a more rigid project architecture. In Eclipse I was pretty used to putting elements all over the place in which ever folder or package I wanted. Android Studio is a move toward convention over configuration, so projects in Android Studio tend to have similar structures. I think this is great because it requires less configuration (and understanding of unique configurations) by me. Also, Gradle is great. It takes some getting used to (it seems very abstract in the beginning) but having the ability to add packages with a line of configuration beats manually adding libraries to my project. Beyond that, I'd say AndroidManifest is at least now partially configured by your project and that Android Studios object creation wizards handle a lot more of the boiler plate code needed to create new entities. All in all a better - more Android-centric - platform. Took me about a month to become comfortable with the switch. Wouldn't move back (even if that was advisable)
As for the min-resolution I'm pretty sure it will work. I have heard of people running below the min requirements. But it will feel cramped. All the drawers are collapsible, but I personally find Android Studio a bit more cluttered with buttons and panels than Eclipse (others may disagree). Should work, but may not be comfortable

React-Native using Android Studio

Is it possible to run a React-Native project using only Android Studio. Right now I use Genymotion for emulator and Webstorm to make changes to source files. It would be great if I can use Android Studio for both running the emulator and making changes to files. I would really appreciate if someone can point me how to do it?

The short answer is "NO".
A better question would be:
Is it possible to write React like programs in Android Studio?
The answer is "Yes" but probably not in the way you are thinking. The main difference is Java, it works totally different then JavaScript. So you could make react like code in Java with RxAndroid (see how) but it will look different

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I am about to start developing an android app and need to get an IDE. Eclipse and the android eclipse plugin appears to be the natural choice. However I am familiar with intelliJ and re-sharper so I would prefer use intelliJ.
Has anyone used https://code.google.com/archive/p/idea-android/? Is this any good?
Should I just bite the bullet and learn Eclipse?

LATEST NEWS
Android Studio has officially come out of beta and been released. It is now the official IDE for Android Development - Eclipse won't be supported anymore. It is definitely the IDE of choice for Android Development. Link to download page: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
NEWS
As of Google I/O 2013, the Android team has moved to IntelliJ Idea with the new Android Studio IDE: http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html
Great to see Google endorse Idea. It is safe to say that Android Studio, and thus Idea, will from now on be the definitive IDE for Android development! :D
ORIGINAL ANSWER
IntelliJ now has support for Android. See Enabling Android Support from the JetBrains help page and the Google Code project page for the plugin. The Getting Started wiki page is pretty helpful.
If you are used to IntelliJ, I don't think it would be beneficial to switch IDEs just for Android tools. You can work on Android with any text editor (I use Vim). If you're more productive with a specific environment I don't see why you'd have to learn a new one. Not worth it in my opinion. Plus I'm a big IntelliJ fan. The IntelliJ plugin lets you make apk files and push the app to the emulator, that's all you need for Android app development. I'd say you're safe sticking with IntelliJ.
Update: there is now an official free IDE for IntelliJ android dev! http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2010/10/intellij-idea-10-free-ide-for-android-development/

Eclipse is not that hard to learn (I use both Eclipse and NetBeans, and I switch back and forth pretty effortlessly). If you're going to be learning Android development from the start, I can recommend Hello, Android, which I just finished. It shows you exactly how to use all the features of Eclipse that are useful for developing Android apps. There's also a brief section on getting set up to develop from the command line and from other IDEs.

Of the existing IDEs, Ted Neward ranks them this way:
Best: IntelliJ IDEA
Second: Netbeans
Third: Eclipse
He seems to think that Eclipse throws up a lot of "friction"; hard to say what that means.
Edit, years later: After attempting to use Eclipse/Aptana for node development and using JetBrains products for node and ruby development I would absolutely start with IntelliJ IDEA and give that a try for the 30 day trial.

Unfortunately, there is no perfect IDE for Android. Eclipse has more features as it is the only IDE google developed plugin for. However, if you are just like me, tired of crashes and weired debug/develop mode swithes, Use Netbeans plugin from http://nbandroid.kenai.com.

If you do android native code development using NDK, give Visual Studio a try. (Not a typo!!!) Check out: http://ian-ni-lewis.blogspot.com/2011/01/its-like-coming-home-again.html
and: http://code.google.com/p/vs-android/

I think intellij is the best option for android. i have used both eclipse and intellij and found intellij is much easier to use with android as compared to eclipse because of these reasons :-
Intellij provides a built-in support for android and you don't have to configure it as you need to do with eclipse.
Intellij gives you auto-lookup feature which is really important for developer like us to increase our productivity. And if we talk about eclipse you have to type each and every method, classname etc on your own. (May be eclipse has this feature too but i never found it and trust me i tried to find it like anything)
Its much more user friendly and easy to use than eclipse.
I hope it will help you and other members of stack overflow to decide which IDE is best for Android development.
My personal choice is Intellij.
EDIT
But there is one thing i love about eclipse and that is visual layout creator. You can use drag and drop technique to create a layout and eclipse will automatically generate an XML file for you just like XCODE.
EDIT
Good News!! Intellij added a new feature which shows how your app's view is going to look like. It doesn't work exactly like Eclipse but it will give you a good idea about your layout.
My personal choice is still Intellij because it helps me to type faster than eclipse.
EDIT
Ok guys these days i am using eclipse juno and found its kind of buggy and slow. So if you still want to use eclipse better stick to some older version. And finally i am able to found how to enable auto-complete in eclipse. Below is a small tutorial.
Eclipse -> Preference - > Java -> Editor -> Content Assist -> Auto Activation
Now put following in the three given boxes
Auto Activation delay(ms) - 0
Auto activation triggers for java - .(abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Auto activation triggers for javadoc - ##
You are now good to go. Happy coding.
EDIT
As now Google has adopted Intellij for their own Android dev tool, there is no question now about which one is better. Intellij is far far better than eclipse. And i switched back to Intellij and it feels like i am back home!! :D

All of the full-featured Java IDE's are good and share all of the same concepts and main features. If you can find your way around one you can probably do the same for any other without much trouble.
EDIT: Google gave us a wonderful gift with the new and free AndroidStudio is very good. I highly recommend it over Eclipse.

If you haven't installed Eclipse yet, I'd recommend Motorola's MotoDev Studio. It does a lot of the annoying little tasks like set up your Android environment along with your paths, and adds a lot of nice built in functionality to Eclipse.
Even if you've already installed Eclipse, you can add it as a plugin (I haven't tried that myself). It is by Motorola, so they have some Motorola centric functionality as well, such as the ability to add your app to the Motorola market. Anyway if you're interested, give it a shot: http://developer.motorola.com/docstools/motodevstudio/

I've been using IntelliJ IDEA for the last 12 months now as my main IDE, but I am often forced to use Eclipse as well. So when I have to work in Eclipse I start biting my nails. I will sum up my pros and cons.
Eclipse pros:
- visual editor. IDEA has one as well, but it's rather primitive. I suspect that this feature will soon be deleted as IDEA will improve its editor.
- many projects into one right pane (this is also my personal con as I like IDEA's one-project-per-pane thing)
- faster compiles Android projects. IDEA has made its compilation process faster, so I also soon expect to delete this Eclipse pro
IDEA pros:
- faster intellisense (if you like Resharper, then you know what I am talking about)
- smarter autocomplete - my friend and I decided to write the same class. I finished before him simply because IDEA faster reacts to my wishes
- incredibly smart - do not know what to do? just press Ctrl+Shift+Space and IDEA will tell you what should come there. It also recognizes naming scheme to if you're filling name object, it will first display getName method.
- will add more as I remember of them
IDEA cons:
- Still the only con is that if you open Eclipse Android project and edit any XML layout file, Eclipse will no longer be able to display edited file into its visual layout editor. This has not been fixed as of this day and it's IDEA's bug as it somehow messes the XML.
Bottom line: if you're a person who does not see advantages of ReSharper in .NET (and we all coded in .NET), then you'll probably stick to Eclipse. It's official Android IDE and you believe it's the best.
If you liked ReSharper and want to code faster, then you'll appreciate IDEA and will stick to it forever.

An IDE which supports Android development is Processing for Android: http://wiki.processing.org/w/Android. Processing is its own language but it's easy to learn. Processing for Android requires the JDK and Android SDK to be installed but runs on its own. It runs on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows (on a side note: one can develop a desktop app in Processing and then compile it to target any of these operating systems). Its development is ongoing but it works. It's especially good for quickly sketching up an idea and running it on your Android phone (even if you plan to develop it further in another IDE).
There is an active support forum here: http://forum.processing.org/android-processing.

One good system is Basic4Android - great for anyone familiar with Basic,
Includes a visual designer for screen layouts
Can connect to the emulators available as part of the Android SDK
Makes it relatively easy to develop programs.

Eclipse and Netbeans are both horrible slow, and I'ts a miracle that even the serious developers has been sticking with it for years, not even try to stick with a better product.
Java as platform is a shame when it comes to non-handheld platforms (win,mac,linux) and if anyone are going to develop on the platform I say do what else but do not use Java at all. For mobility it's probably has a kind of good luck here, as the systems are more down-scaled.
As far I know, there aren't any existing IDE for Java which aren't iself written in a Java environment. This is horrible because Java is messing up the desktop environment.
I'm willing to spend hours on google to find an Java IDE/Editor which are capable for android projects but will use a native environment for itself.

I Feel Eclipse IDE is more suitable for android applications rather than other IDEs.
Because its providing us more than five perspectives which will make our project flexible and ease.You may try Eclipse ides starts with 3.6 and above will provide you better performance.
Eclipse_jee_indigo
Eclipse_java_indigo
Eclipse_classic
The above eclipses are belongs to the version3.7.2 which are all latest and supports all kind of access.

I am a huge supporter of using the environment that is most familiar to you. However this isn't always the best option. In some cases, a different environment can result in (far?) greater efficency in the long run.
In this particular case I suspect that sticking with what you already know is a good option, but someone starting new would benifit from the easy setup and sdk/ndk integration offered by eclipse. I also don't know how available geolocation manipulation (or phone state manipulation - ie incoming call etc) is in other IDE's, but integration within eclipse feels seamless.
AIDE is a fun option that I use while traveling or when I don't feel like sitting at my desk all the time. It is an extrodinarly well put together IDE that runs on Android, compiles Android appications, and then lets you install, all without touching a computer. It includes a logcat readout, syntax highlighting and some git compatibility as well. Obviously you don't have a lot of screen real estate available and things can get cluttered or you can't see everything you want to at once, but for quick touchups or early in a project it is more than adequate.

Eclipse is the best IDE. It easy to setup android and debug applications in eclipse

Eclipse is the most widely used development environment for the Android platform. The reason is that even Google itself providing the plug-in to be added in eclipse and start developing the applications. I have tried installing it from the eclipse market place, it is very easy and simple to create the android application. set up also very simple.

You can also develop rich UI filled Android applications using Adobe AIR. If you plan to go that route then Flex Builder Burrito is the best IDE. Take a look at this post as to how easy it is to build an AIR4Android app http://blog.air4android.com/?p=13

I advise Android bundle for TextMate: https://github.com/nesterow/Android.tmbundle It's lightweight and easy to use. There is no intellisense, but actually it just makes you remember namespaces better. :)

For me the best is Motodev is a Eclipse plugin developed by Motorola.

you can use Juno, i just find it. it's fastest than Helios that i worked with that. you can try it.

How could I view packaged APK files in Eclipse unencrypted?

I am newer to android development. I have a couple apps I've made with appinventor. I would like to be able to take a completed and packaged .apk that is saved on my computer that was made with appinventor and open to edit it in eclipse. Mainly I want to see how a working app Ive made is actually written. This is for my own educational purposes only, no pirating or other illegal uses.

generally it is not possible to convert an App Inventor project into Java. However there are projects which have this goal, see the App Inventor-Java translation project and the Java Bridge project.

Check the android-apktool. I have no experience with the tool and as I see it will not show you the sources but it seems to be the best way to 'unpack' apk files.

I doubt this is possible, how are you going to bring the dex code back to your java code, even then, AppInventor makes for horrible APKs, two apps that do the exact same thing will differ greatly in size if made with the SDK vs AppInventor.
You should just read a couple of books, or search for information online, instead of trying to unpack an APK.

It's absolutely possible using dex2jar which involves a little time to set up and run but it give you a .jar that you can open with a java decompiler. As for getting the source files into eclipse, there are probably some decompilers that do this but probably cost money. You can use the one listed to copy/paste the code out but it will not provide you with an eclipse project.

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I am about to start developing an android app and need to get an IDE. Eclipse and the android eclipse plugin appears to be the natural choice. However I am familiar with intelliJ and re-sharper so I would prefer use intelliJ.
Has anyone used https://code.google.com/archive/p/idea-android/? Is this any good?
Should I just bite the bullet and learn Eclipse?

LATEST NEWS
Android Studio has officially come out of beta and been released. It is now the official IDE for Android Development - Eclipse won't be supported anymore. It is definitely the IDE of choice for Android Development. Link to download page: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
NEWS
As of Google I/O 2013, the Android team has moved to IntelliJ Idea with the new Android Studio IDE: http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html
Great to see Google endorse Idea. It is safe to say that Android Studio, and thus Idea, will from now on be the definitive IDE for Android development! :D
ORIGINAL ANSWER
IntelliJ now has support for Android. See Enabling Android Support from the JetBrains help page and the Google Code project page for the plugin. The Getting Started wiki page is pretty helpful.
If you are used to IntelliJ, I don't think it would be beneficial to switch IDEs just for Android tools. You can work on Android with any text editor (I use Vim). If you're more productive with a specific environment I don't see why you'd have to learn a new one. Not worth it in my opinion. Plus I'm a big IntelliJ fan. The IntelliJ plugin lets you make apk files and push the app to the emulator, that's all you need for Android app development. I'd say you're safe sticking with IntelliJ.
Update: there is now an official free IDE for IntelliJ android dev! http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2010/10/intellij-idea-10-free-ide-for-android-development/

Eclipse is not that hard to learn (I use both Eclipse and NetBeans, and I switch back and forth pretty effortlessly). If you're going to be learning Android development from the start, I can recommend Hello, Android, which I just finished. It shows you exactly how to use all the features of Eclipse that are useful for developing Android apps. There's also a brief section on getting set up to develop from the command line and from other IDEs.

Of the existing IDEs, Ted Neward ranks them this way:
Best: IntelliJ IDEA
Second: Netbeans
Third: Eclipse
He seems to think that Eclipse throws up a lot of "friction"; hard to say what that means.
Edit, years later: After attempting to use Eclipse/Aptana for node development and using JetBrains products for node and ruby development I would absolutely start with IntelliJ IDEA and give that a try for the 30 day trial.

Unfortunately, there is no perfect IDE for Android. Eclipse has more features as it is the only IDE google developed plugin for. However, if you are just like me, tired of crashes and weired debug/develop mode swithes, Use Netbeans plugin from http://nbandroid.kenai.com.

If you do android native code development using NDK, give Visual Studio a try. (Not a typo!!!) Check out: http://ian-ni-lewis.blogspot.com/2011/01/its-like-coming-home-again.html
and: http://code.google.com/p/vs-android/

All of the full-featured Java IDE's are good and share all of the same concepts and main features. If you can find your way around one you can probably do the same for any other without much trouble.
EDIT: Google gave us a wonderful gift with the new and free AndroidStudio is very good. I highly recommend it over Eclipse.

If you haven't installed Eclipse yet, I'd recommend Motorola's MotoDev Studio. It does a lot of the annoying little tasks like set up your Android environment along with your paths, and adds a lot of nice built in functionality to Eclipse.
Even if you've already installed Eclipse, you can add it as a plugin (I haven't tried that myself). It is by Motorola, so they have some Motorola centric functionality as well, such as the ability to add your app to the Motorola market. Anyway if you're interested, give it a shot: http://developer.motorola.com/docstools/motodevstudio/

An IDE which supports Android development is Processing for Android: http://wiki.processing.org/w/Android. Processing is its own language but it's easy to learn. Processing for Android requires the JDK and Android SDK to be installed but runs on its own. It runs on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows (on a side note: one can develop a desktop app in Processing and then compile it to target any of these operating systems). Its development is ongoing but it works. It's especially good for quickly sketching up an idea and running it on your Android phone (even if you plan to develop it further in another IDE).
There is an active support forum here: http://forum.processing.org/android-processing.

One good system is Basic4Android - great for anyone familiar with Basic,
Includes a visual designer for screen layouts
Can connect to the emulators available as part of the Android SDK
Makes it relatively easy to develop programs.

Eclipse and Netbeans are both horrible slow, and I'ts a miracle that even the serious developers has been sticking with it for years, not even try to stick with a better product.
Java as platform is a shame when it comes to non-handheld platforms (win,mac,linux) and if anyone are going to develop on the platform I say do what else but do not use Java at all. For mobility it's probably has a kind of good luck here, as the systems are more down-scaled.
As far I know, there aren't any existing IDE for Java which aren't iself written in a Java environment. This is horrible because Java is messing up the desktop environment.
I'm willing to spend hours on google to find an Java IDE/Editor which are capable for android projects but will use a native environment for itself.

I Feel Eclipse IDE is more suitable for android applications rather than other IDEs.
Because its providing us more than five perspectives which will make our project flexible and ease.You may try Eclipse ides starts with 3.6 and above will provide you better performance.
Eclipse_jee_indigo
Eclipse_java_indigo
Eclipse_classic
The above eclipses are belongs to the version3.7.2 which are all latest and supports all kind of access.

I am a huge supporter of using the environment that is most familiar to you. However this isn't always the best option. In some cases, a different environment can result in (far?) greater efficency in the long run.
In this particular case I suspect that sticking with what you already know is a good option, but someone starting new would benifit from the easy setup and sdk/ndk integration offered by eclipse. I also don't know how available geolocation manipulation (or phone state manipulation - ie incoming call etc) is in other IDE's, but integration within eclipse feels seamless.
AIDE is a fun option that I use while traveling or when I don't feel like sitting at my desk all the time. It is an extrodinarly well put together IDE that runs on Android, compiles Android appications, and then lets you install, all without touching a computer. It includes a logcat readout, syntax highlighting and some git compatibility as well. Obviously you don't have a lot of screen real estate available and things can get cluttered or you can't see everything you want to at once, but for quick touchups or early in a project it is more than adequate.

Eclipse is the best IDE. It easy to setup android and debug applications in eclipse

Eclipse is the most widely used development environment for the Android platform. The reason is that even Google itself providing the plug-in to be added in eclipse and start developing the applications. I have tried installing it from the eclipse market place, it is very easy and simple to create the android application. set up also very simple.

You can also develop rich UI filled Android applications using Adobe AIR. If you plan to go that route then Flex Builder Burrito is the best IDE. Take a look at this post as to how easy it is to build an AIR4Android app http://blog.air4android.com/?p=13

I advise Android bundle for TextMate: https://github.com/nesterow/Android.tmbundle It's lightweight and easy to use. There is no intellisense, but actually it just makes you remember namespaces better. :)

For me the best is Motodev is a Eclipse plugin developed by Motorola.

you can use Juno, i just find it. it's fastest than Helios that i worked with that. you can try it.

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