I'm a newbie in Android development and I have some difficulties with installing environment. Normally I'm trying to solve this questions by myself, however here I really need your help. This questions may look for you a bit stupid, I'm sorry for this in advance.
First question: is it really matters which eclipse package I will use? I saw it's a number of different packages like Luna, Mars, Neon and so on, and each package has different versions of eclipse, which one I should use?
I installed Eclipse platform(version 3.8.1) on my Ubuntu 15.10, connected ADT plugins, SDK, everything were ok, until I created a new project. It gave me an error "Could not open the editor: The editor class could not be instantiated. This usually indicates a missing no-arg constructor or that the editor's class name was mistyped in plugin.xml." and long list of problems under "Details" button.
and why you want to use eclipse ?
The official IDE now for android is Android Studio its pretty simple and better here's the link to download it and it's easy to download too :
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
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While creating Android environment in eclipse, I receive this error:
Folder can't be moved because it's open in another folder
, and when updating, it all fails as Eclipse doesn't find the SDK location, because emaluator.exe file is no longer existing as part of the tools of the SDK. I have preinstalled system-image, etc. Any ideas on how to fix this issue without re-installation?
As a beginner and as now Google has their own IDE for developing Android App, you better should start your development journey with Android Studio. It is powerful, beautiful and very easy to use. Why you are using Eclipse still now? If you use Eclipse, you have to install Android SDK, Android Emulator. And you are getting all the tools in one place with Android Studio.
Moreover, Android Studio has IntelliJ engine inside. It is known as the best java ide. Super auto code completion, intelligent code inspector and so on.
Android Studio has become the way to go for Android developers now-a-days. It is easier to use because is based on the IntelliJ Idea which is per se a much better java programming environment than eclipse, it predicts way better what you may need to write, and google has made it so that you have all your interface, simulator and code all in the same environment. On top of that google won't update the Android SDK to work with Eclipse anymore!
So I've been trying to install libgdx for a few days with Eclipse and it kept telling me various things (Android ADT, Java JDK, etc.) needed to be updated, so I did that, but I kept getting the same error.
Then I decided to download an older version (0.9.8) and I used the gdx-setup-ui.jar to set up my projects. But upon opening them in the Eclipse/ADT bundle, the Android and HTML projects had errors in them involving the import statements, which I tried to solve to no avail.
This is the tutorial I've mainly tried to follow.
Does anybody have a solution for me to get it to work? I'm most familiar with Eclipse, having worked with it for Android for a while now, so I'd prefer not to switch IDEs.
Thanks in Advance
Use ADT (Android Developer Tools) instead of Eclipse. (Is the same thing anyways)
http://developer.android.com/tools/index.html
If you got errors after importing your projects on android, right click on the android project, and at android, check the version that is there.
For HTML you need to install the GWT plugin.
Recently libGDX has moved to Gradle, so you might want to look over that
https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/wiki/Project-Setup-Gradle
I've been using eclipse to develop Android apps with phonegap until, a few weeks ago, I decided to try Sublime Text 2. I found it to be so much better than the eclipse editor so I would like to keep using it. Only thing I'm missing is a quick way to test the app on the device inside Sublime.
Luckily, someone else also had the same idea and developed a plugin for this:
https://github.com/Korcholis/Andrew
Sadly, I cannot get it to work, I installed ant and pointed the plugin to adb but then nothing happens when I try to create a new project (and there is no error message in the console).
I also found this other plugin:
https://bitbucket.org/ucomesdag/sublime-android
But I have no idea on how to install and run it.
Did someone else found a way to do this?
A quick update into 2014.
As of PhoneGap Cordova 3.0, it is no longer required to develop Android apps via eclipse. You are free to use any code editor or IDE you wish as app building is done independently from eclipse via a simple command line.
cordova run android to package the .apk and install on any active devices detected by adb or
cordova build android to package the .apk only.
In your case, you can keep using Sublime and pop in the cordova run android command whenever you ready to go on a test run.
While I agree with Insane Coder that you should stick with supported IDEs to develop for Android, according to this link and existing Sublime Text 2 Ant support, you could build and develop your android project with this IDE (It will just take some time to set it all up... as opposed to using a supported IDE like IntelliJ or Eclipse).
Using PackageControl, look for "Ant". That will install syntax highlighting for Ant. Another plugin that enables the build command (ctrl+b) to work for Ant files, "Super Ant". You should be able to code for android in sublime text 2 with those installed.
On another note... Do you use windows? The Andrew project you link to, seems to have Windows compatibility issues. Apparently related to locating the "SDK" (he says sdk in Andrew's github page but, probably he means JDK?) in your hard drive. Which is probably a hassle because Windows typically installs stuff to "Program Files" and in code, that turns into "Progra~1" because of the space. In the link I give you there is another approach to it, so when you install the JDK set a folder that has no spaces in its name, like c:\java\jdk1.6.0_02 or something else that strikes your fancy. The problem you could be having with Andrew is that it isn't finding the jdk in your hard disk.
I wanted to start developing for Android, but found it terribly hard to set everything up so it would work on Sublime Text 2.
I know that I'm supposed to download and set up the Android SDK, but how, where and why? And how do I compile my projects and run them? This is a complete mystery to me.
I've been researching this for about 3 hours now and haven't had any success. Could anyone of you, please, help me by guide me through the process of setting everything up in ST2?
Please note that I do not want to use Eclipse IDE. I've grown to love ST2 and I'd like to stick with it.
I know that I'm supposed to download and set up the Android SDK, but how, where and why?
Visit the official site and follow the instructions for "other/existing IDE". I don't think anyone wrote specific instructions for using Sublime yet though (since you haven't found one).
And how do I compile my projects and run them? This is a complete mystery to me.
As others already answered, other than a JDK, you will most likely need to download and run Ant from the command line.
If you really want start Andriod development, without using the great support of an IDE like Intelji Idea or Eclipse, then you should properly look into building and running your applications in the command line beside Sublime Text 2
If you follow the instructions for using the 'Andrew' software module from github, you can get sublime to communicate with the android sdk and ant build tool via a tool called monitor.
https://github.com/Korcholis/Andrew
Kind of similar to a vim addon i used to use that talked to eclipse service.
But if anyone else is reading this, intellij (android studio) has come on leaps and bounds regarding speed and autocomplete.
Eclipse and IntelliJ are the known supported IDEs for Android development. If you don't want to use Eclipse or IntelliJ, read up about ant scripts and how to build with Ant. That should get you started.
Sublime Text 2, right now doesn't support Android development from within the IDE. The only option you have, other than using Ant, is to wait for someone to write a plugin for that.
Two months ago, I set up Eclipse Indigo to build android application. Then i got some problems with my computer so I uninstalled it.
I downloaded Eclipse Indigo again and tried to set up Eclipse but the interface has changed. There are some additional folders and options. I followed newboston tutorials for installation.
So, my question is how can I get back to the old interface like the one in the tutorial? I don't like the new one. Here is how it looks in the new interface. I've also attached a video which has the old interface.
I don't think this is a problem of Eclipse. This is related to Android Development Tools(ADT), which is a plugin for Eclipse.
If you really want to go back to previous version of ADT, please take a look at this Answer to get old versions of ADT.