Is it possible to use the templates from the commandline? - android

So in ADT 20 or so, there was introduced a new function to the Android Eclipse plugin, to have code templates you can use, initiated via a Wizard. I'm curious if there's any way to use those from the command line, or if I'm going to have to write my own thing to do that.
What I've gathered so far is they're FreeMarker templates, with some XML metadata to help the Wizard along.
Thanks for your time.

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Best way of version control, stable builds and exporting/ a project on multiple devices

today it's a shorter question I'd like to ask, to hear your opinions as I suppose some do this differently than others.
First of all,, I have an Android Studio project and am rather a novice on this subject of Android Development. That's why slight changes in the java or xml files could and did make my latest app unstable/ crashing.
Therefore I was asking myself wether Android Studio offers a way to backup stable builds - I could imagine this like a save-as option where you backup the working version and continue working on the the one but have a stable one backed up.
I know there's the export project function but I tried it out a couple of times and having worked on a project on the same device before, prior to reimporting a project causes an error and that's not the way I guess you should handle it in this situation.
I was looking at Google Cloud for using both version control and the option to commit new versions to the trunk and update them at a different location (different device). If that's the solution you propose, I need to look more closely into the documentation to get it up and running (set up the repository already but no clue how to commit changes/ versions).
So, long story short, what tool/ option do you prefer to have an export and a version control option unified for Android Studio?
Interested to hear and thankful for any advice on that!
There are multiple solutions,
Just find your solution/project in your file explorer and back it up, if you need it again just open the project with Android Studio. (not the most popular one)
Use a version control system like git. Link to tutorial (This is the most popular one), If u are unfamiliar with git, just google it and there are tons of examples and documentation. With git you can tag commits and after u mess up revert to the tagged commit
Git is the simpliest.
It's supported by AndroidStudio and later on you can upload your project to GitHub to access it from anywhere.
You can use it with terminal and shorcut keys, incons as well.
You also can make separate branches in order to make and test more versions parallely.
For more info take a look at: https://git-scm.com/about
and of course github: https://github.com/
Regards,
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Infragistics controls for eclipse

I want to use Infragistics controls in my android application which i am creating in Eclipse IDE. But i cannot find a way to integrate these controls with eclipse. I have downloaded the file named NetAdvantage from
http://www.infragistics.com/products/android/
But I cannot find a way to use it in my project. When I try to install it, it installs it for Visual Studio. Can anybody please tell me some way as my application is in java not in C# or VB.NET
I assume that you are referring to the IGUANA UI toolset? In this case I suggest choosing the "Iguana UI 2012 Complete Bundle" download option on the IG Website.
IGUANA UI actually does not require installation - the toolset as well as the documentation and product samples (including sample source code) are all available in the downloaded zip.
Please let me know if this helps.

How does android source code work?

I have download a set of android source code, which has folders such as "bionic, bootable, build, dalvik, development, frameworks, hadware, packages, prebuilt" and so on. When I browse the whole code, wonder how "import android.preference.PreferenceActivity;" works in Settings.java(D:\android-srce\Google-source\packages\apps\Settings\src\com\android\settings\Settings.java). I guess there is a android.jar file somewhere after compilation. But how does Settings.java import PreferenceActivity correctly?? I'm a beginner in Android, please help me.
Sounds like you have downloaded the source code to the Android OS. If you want to build your own ROMS then you need to study about building the OS for a particular hardware platform. This is not trivial.
If you want to build an Android app that runs on an Android device then you want to download the SDK instead - start at Android SDK and follow your nose, buy a book, read the sample code.
There is not a lot of information how to change parts of Android. However, you can read information that is connected with the aosp tag. The first cite is source.android.com After the installation of android build system you can see video from marakana group. You'll find a lot of valuable information there.

What are Steps to grab the samples from AndEngine Repository

I had tried to grab the samples of AndEngine using Mercurial eclipse plugins, but that was firing some sort of error to me again and again. So, can someone please let me know what could be the easiest way to get the AndEngine examples or samples from the repository. I am working on Windows.
Thanks.
Update:
Change the Mercurial client from the built in one to TortoiseHG (in the Eclipse preferences).
Previous Answer:
Plan A: Make sure to use native Mercurial with EclipseHG (not the one which ships with the plugin). You can find the settings the preferences dialog. Last time I tried, the built-in version was broken. If it fails again, copy and paste the error message.
Plan B: Try TortoiseHG
Plan C: Give us a concrete error message. (Which should actually be Plan A ;) )
You download the zip from https://github.com/nicolasgramlich/AndEngineExamples

Jigloo, Eclipse and Android

Im fairly new at programming and was wondering if the Jigloo gui builder plugin would work with android app developement. I have Eclipse setup with the android sdk plugin configured, after seeing what Jigloo can do and that you can see the source code after creating the gui iI figured this would be a helpful tool to use.
I would be very grateful if someone could tell me if it does work and how to configure it.
Thank you in advance
AFAIK, Jigloo has nothing to do with Android, sorry.
Android has its own GUI framework and doesn't use Swing/SWT (what Jigloo seems to be for), so I don't think you can use it to build Android GUIs. When you open a layout XML file in Eclipse and click the 'layout' tab, you can get a rough idea of what it will look like anyway.
You could check out DroidDraw if you want a drag and drop GUI builder, although I'm not sure how regularly updated it is.

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