I am using eclipse as IDE for android programming. I have update android SDK to API 9. these are installed on my laptop.
Now, I want to transfer all of these to my PC. On my PC, I didn't have eclipse and SDK.
My question is, may I copy folders of eclipse and SDK from laptop and paste it on my PC? can I use it and create new project after this?
Thanks
Try and see is the best answer to this.
My suggestions is to launch eclipse on your desktop and get ADT.
Otherwise I think you have to be careful where your Android SDK is. if you put in Eclipse then it should work.
(In my case I needed the SDK and NDK to be at the root of C:)
bottom line there is not better way than a clean installation
Yes, you can just copy the whole project (your app) folders over to your PC. In Eclipse, use the File/Import… command, then select General/Existing Projects into Workspace to add the copied project/s to your Eclipse workspace.
As for the Android SDK folder, I wouldn't transfer that one over, and just run the SDK installer for Windows again on the second PC to be sure.
Yes Very much. Just copy and paste. This should work in most cases. (Except if you try to transfer a 64bit eclipse version to a 32bit machine. If this happens just download the eclipse 32 bit version and point your workspace and android SDK to the copied one).
Copy paste has and advantage if you are planning to generate debug key (need this if you are using Location Information using Google API). If you copy paste, you dont have to keep generating a new key per machine.
Yes, you can copy all the things as far as you keep respecting the path changes. Keep track of them and change paths in Eclipse. You must have Java although.
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I am trying to migrate from ADT to Xamrin.
I have installed Xamarin on Windows.
I have installed sdk. But when I try to download tools and sdks from SDK manager I get and error like this:
But since I already had downloaded everything when I was using ADT, I copied the sdk folder to the new computer I have Xamarin on.
But Xamarin does not seem to be able to locate sdk.
I have installed Android sdk here:
When I go to tools->options and I enter the address of the sdk folder, the red cross does not go away. I tried entering all subfolders in sdk folder.
What am I supposed to do?
I've been dealing with this the whole day. No usefull link or guide since Xamarin is not stoll widely used. Any help is appreciated.
First of all, it's a good idea to remove all spaces from pathes.
I use C:\Android as my base path, c:\Android\SDK, c:\Android\NDK etc. I had some serious problems with Xamarin and spaces / accented characters in path in previous versions.
Furthermore there's an Access Denied on your path in the first screenshot, add read/write rights recursively for the folder c:\program files (x86)\Android (Everyone - Full control if anything fails)
Im currently working on Android SDK. I have some applications that I need to move from Windows to Ubuntu.
Will I be able to move the projectfiles that I have created? Will the v3,v4,v7 etc that are generated be re-generated when run in Eclipse on Ubuntu?
Yes, you can move projects between eclipse environments (and OSes) without issue.
Copy the entire project folder (including the .project and other files).
I use two computer for coding. My desktop pc and the notebook. I sync the two computers with dropbox. How can I import/load a project on each of this two computers? The project base folder is different on each computer. When I try to load/import a project which is created on the other computer it loads the project but I got a error with a wrong path.
"Gradle "Test2Project" project refresh failed:
Could not fetch model of type "IdeaProject" using Gradle distribution "http://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.6.zip".
Project directory "C:\Users\thomas\AndroidStudioProjects\Test2Project" does not exist."
The wrong pfad is the right pfad on the other computer. How can I import Android Studio projects so that it works even on another computer with a different folder structure?
Like the others i agree, that using a VCS would be the best solution. Even though you can try to filter all android studio related files (like *.iml, .idea folder and local.properties). I don't know if you can do this with dropbox or if you need some kind of 3rd software.
After that you should be able to make source code changes on both computers without greater problems. (You may have to declare project dependencies changes for the android studio twice)
Builds depending on the build.gradle files should work to. But again: using a VCS is the better way to go.
Go for git, you can use bitbucket.com as a free remote repository.
This is a problem I have ran into when trying to store Android projects in a Dropbox folder. What happens is that Machine 1's IDE is mapping system resources (like the SDK) as being in that machine's filesystem. When you go to Machine 2, everything will work EXCEPT for what you expect--because the SDK will probably be in a different spot!
One way to get around this is to use your VCS (dropbox, git, whatever) as a repository for JUST your source files, and then have a local project created on each machine that reads from the Dropbox folder. This requires two separate projects that are mapped differently, but that have the same source folder.
I discovered this problem when I tried to load up an Android project on a new install on a Mac machine:
Do you see what's happening there? My Mac Android Studio is saying, "Hey, I don't see where "C:\Android\SDK is, but I do see that you have an Android SDK in a different folder, so I'm going to update your project files to reflect the actual location of the SDK."
In my opinion, the only way around this is to create your project on both machines, and version control your source and assets folder. If you don't create the project separately on each machine and use VCS for just the source and assets, the only way to get around build and filepath errors is to store your SDK in the same folder on each machine. This worked for me when I was building on a Windows desktop and Windows laptop, but no longer works for me since I am using a Macbook Pro.
I know this was questioned about 4 years ago, but this is up to now still an issue. Using a VCS seems like a good solution, but for me it is simply more overhead than i want to have. I also use Dropbox to synchronize my folders and the history they provide is for my private programming needs good enough. So i think, it would be good, if android studio simply uses relative paths.
I know it needs some system paths and it does a good job in looking at the local.properties and setting it to the correct place when the project is loaded.
The main problem with using Dropbox are the build-directories. There are many many references to fully qualified paths in the files within these directories. So my solution was to exclude the build-directories from Dropbox-synchronisation.
When you work at your laptop, build the app, create new files, change files or delete files, the build on your pc will be completely outdated when you switch back to it. but android studio will recognize this and do a fresh build when you start your project for the first time after working on the laptop.
so the biggest problem at this point is the file local.properties and this is handled correctly by android studio. it may be a good idea (or a really bad one, i don't know the drawbacks) when the build system wouldn't write fully qualified paths in the files within the build directory.
But up to now this is my solution for using Dropbox and not using a VCS:
exclude build-paths from Dropbox synchronisation
i hope this helps somebody.
IntelliJ 12 does not generate the needed files to start Android Development.
I've setup both JDK and SDK and intelliJ seems to see the correct paths.
I am coming from Eclipse which generates everything you need to start pretty much out of the box.
I've tried...
Double triple checking file paths.
Searching...alot of searching.
Making new files from scratch.
Making hello world program, still doesn't generate needed res folder and AndroidManifest.xml file.
Changing file path directly to AndroidManifest.xml's containing folder.
The one thing Eclipse provides that is missing from IntelliJ is and Android SDK install wizard. In other words, you would have to preinstall hte Android SDK from Google prior to starting with IntelliJ. Other than that IntelliJ actually provides more out of the box than Eclipse. (Especially considering you have to manually install the Android plugin before you get the Android SDK install wizard.) Go to the Google Android developer site to find the Android SDK and once you've done that you should be able to get up and running pretty quickly with IntelliJ. Start a new project and select Android. This should walk you through a new project wizard which will setup the necessary res and gen folders for you.
I've put together a screencast on Android development using an Eclipse stub project here: http://bit.ly/Zu6q8i
I'm having trouble setting up the Android SDK. I've set up Eclipse before but it didn't work, so I uninstalled it, but I'm trying again.
Does Eclipse need to be extracted to a particular folder for it to work? Where should I extract to?
Edit:
I'm using Eclipse 3.5 on Win7 Ultimate x64
Eclipse should be one of the most straightforward installs you have ever done. Make sure you have a Java SDK installed prior to extracting Eclipse. Otherwise it should work out of the box. Be sure not to move the eclipse executable out of the directory that you extract it to (make a shortcut to move instead).
The Android SDK should also be largely painless. Use the tool provided with the SDK download to setup the versions you want. The documentation is pretty good for this. (see Brian's link)
It can be much trickier to get the drivers for specific handsets working though, so you have that to look forward to down the road. They will come from the individual manufacturers developer websites.
Also is this for Win, Linux, or Mac? I will link you a walk through for the one you need.
Video tutorial for installing Android SDK on Win7 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeWH6Bj1DYw&feature=related
Installing Eclipse on Win 7 64bit:
http://lingpipe-blog.com/2009/03/05/eclipse-ide-for-64-bit-windows-and-64-bit-java/
How can I install eclipse on Windows 7 64-bit?
JVM - http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/moreinfo/jre.php
No, Eclipse can be extracted anywhere. Make sure you follow the steps detailed in the guide "Installing the SDK".
Ignore the last link to the JRE provided in Andrew's answer, you need the Sun JDK (5 or 6) instead of just the JRE (The Java Development Kit can contain multiple Java Runtime Environments). The official documentation Android provides makes this distinction quite clear. You need the JDK. --> http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html#Preparing
Also, the ADT plugin for eclipse sometimes doesn't update correctly. In that case, try to manually remove the 's' from the 'https://' and if that doesn't work, click on one of the tabs of the dialog and look for the checkbox which forces the use of secure mode, and then of course, make sure there is an 's' in the 'https://'.
Also make sure you've updated your system environment variable called 'path' to make sure the tools inside the tools/ folder from your android sdk folder are accessible from anywhere your command line/Eclipse might decide to call them from.