Android Studio was announced in May 2013 and maintained by Android technology team since then. It is based on the IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition, added features that are designed specifically for Android development and cooperated with JetBrains, creators of one of the most advanced Java IDEs available today. As the official Android IDE, Android Studio gives us access to a powerful and comprehensive suite of tools to evolve our app across Android platforms, whether it's on the phone, wrist, car or TV.
As Android Studio arises, Eclipse, the powerful open-sourced IDE, worked with Android Developer Tools (ADT) to create gorgeous Android apps, begins to fall. Now that when Android M Preview was released, Eclipse couldn't work with the latest Android SDK whose structure was changed but Eclipse couldn't adapt it.
It is said that development and official support for the ADT in Eclipse will be ended at the end of the year, just to make way for focus on all of their efforts on making Android Studio better and faster. But Eclipse isn't abandoned completely for Android Development. Android tools inside it continues to live. They created a new project called Andmore - Eclipse Android Tooling.
So, what is Andmore? Now that ADT in Eclipse is not supported any more, they create this Eclipse Android Tooling for what? After Eclipse don't work for Android development at all, developers would switch to Android Studio, the official IDE, I think, will someone prefer Andmore in Eclipse? If so, what are advantages of Andmore in Eclipse which force them to choose it?
Any tips will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
The purpose of Andmore is to provide Android Eclipse tooling without having to go through multiple steps.
The technology development involves integrating and refactoring the Google ADT plugins as necessary to work with the project. Similarly, the former MOTODEV plugins have components that can be integrated into the project.
Andmore includes:
JDT for Android Java applications.
CDT for C/C++ shared libraries.
Gradle tooling (details TBD)
Maven Build support via the M2E-Android Eclipse Plugin.
Ant support via the built in Eclipse support for ANT.
A fork of Google's ADT (Android Development Tools) plugins for
Eclipse.These are maintained separately from Google's code line at AOSP, which will not be updated with any regularity.
The former MOTODEV Studio Plugins (now part of the Android Open
Source Project) upgraded to work with ADT.
A p2 repository and product build using tycho.
Mylyn Reviews for Gerrit Review integration.
EGit for source code management.
GitHub Plugin from EGit for better collaboration with GitHub
projects.
In addition to components, Andmore will produce an EPP package.
The source code for Andmore is maintained on Github. To contribute, please make sure you have a signed CLA with the Eclipse Foundation on file, and fork the repository. Pull requests and will be reviewed by an existing committer before being merged.
Source repository can be found at https://github.com/eclipse/andmore/
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I have always coded android apps using eclipse as opposed to android studio simply because i find it faster than android studio. However because google has deprecated eclipse as the official IDE for android.They also stopped developing android developer tools (ADT) plugin.
For purposes of the layout renderer in eclipse, I need to know what was the last version of Android Developer Tools plugin for eclipse to be ever released by google before it was deprecated?
The last version of ADT tools should be ADT-23.0.7.
I've never managed to find something newer than that.
In the official annoucement it states:
Android tools inside Eclipse will continue to live on in the open source community via the Eclipse Foundation. Check out the latest Eclipse Andmore project if you are interested in contributing or learning more.
Google is no longer supporting the ADT plugin, and it is actively encouraging developers to migrate to Android Studio. The official announcement about the ADT Plugin being DEPRECATED was posted on 26 June 2015 at https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2015/06/an-update-on-eclipse-android-developer.html. It is also clearly stated at https://developer.android.com/studio/tools/sdk/eclipse-adt.html.
Is the Eclipse Foundation still supporting and encouraging Developers to use Eclipse ADT for Android development, or did even the Eclipse Foundation give up and abandon Eclipse ADT? I am wondering if Android Studio and Eclipse ADT are still competitors, or if Eclipse ADT was defeated and they just gave up. It is obvious that Google wants everyone to use Android Studio, but what is the position of the Eclipse Foundation about that?
There is no competition at-all. Android Studio is de-facto industry standard now.
Eclipse ADT was built and maintained by Google and not by eclipse foundation. Android Studio is far better IDE then Eclipse ADT ever was. Google has long abandoned ADT for good and so did the industry.
The Eclipse Foundation is working on Andmore:
The purpose of Eclipse Andmore is to provide Android Eclipse tooling without having to go through multiple steps.
The technology development involves integrating and refactoring the Google ADT plugins as necessary to work with the project. Similarly, the former MOTODEV plugins have components that can be integrated into the project.
Yes it is, since late 2015.
we are ending development and official support for the Android Developer Tools (ADT) in Eclipse at the end of the year.
Link to source
Can anyone here please provide me with the proper link for Android SDK and Installation of SDK for Eclipse Mars, I have searched a lot, but I didn't find anything other than Android Studio,
I am using eclipse because android studio is not working on my laptop, its very heavy and my laptop takes more time to open and run the program,
so If any one has the better knowledge for downloading and installation, then please provide me here..
and What I am trying to looking at Android developer website, they changed it for only Android Studio. Whenever I open any old link, it is redirecting me to Android Studio, is It true?? Please provide me with some more detail about it.
Thank you
You can download eclipse ADT plugin from here (note that it is not the latest).
Also, there is one more helpful link for getting latest available releases for eclipse (ADT 23.0.7 since August 2015).
By the way, at least for me is very confusing that Android Studio working worse than eclipse. I found that Android Studio is far better than eclipse (but that is only my personal opinion).
Anyway, that is more important: Android Studio is now the official IDE for Android and migration to it is recommended. Eclipse is not supported anymore.
How about you download Eclipse Neon with the Andmore project?
While Eclipse is not officially supported by Google, this project has forked the Android ADT plugin and is being maintained on the side.
I wanna know which ADT bundle and IDE is preferly use by developers and why?
So i can deside which one is suitable for me to be update.
Android Studio is the official IDE for Android Development. It is the only tool into which Google will be putting development resources.
The Eclipse ADT plugin is effectively now deprecated and will no longer receive development effort from Google.
Android Studio is best all the developers moving on android studio and also use the gradle build system because gradle is a advance building tools and also android studio provide a very good environment for development. Please let me know if you have any doubt.
I have Scala IDE installed and I want to add the Android SDK Tools to it. I'd rather not download the ADT Bundle and have 2 different copies of Eclipse on my system.
Can the SDK Tools be safely installed into Scala IDE, and how? Also will there be any further dependencies to install, or does Scala IDE contain everything needed for the SDK? I'm rather new to Eclipse and Android and I don't want to risk messing something up.
Why don't you just try ? :)
Both Scala IDE and the Android SDK are available as plugins for Eclipse (Scala IDE, Android SDK). And there is an extra plugin useful to simplify the configuration of a Scala + Android project (AndroidProguardScala). All the needed dependencies should get pulled automatically.
Finally, there is a short tutorial to tweak the example Android app for Scala. I didn't test it with the latest versions of everything, but it used to work very well.
On a side note, I would advise you to setup different Eclipse for different purposes. It is usually an better idea than trying to cram all the features you may need in one Eclipse installation.