Eclipse.ini Settings

Usually, a good portion of new android developers have trouble with Eclipse.ini settings as java VM settings have changed over the years and there is a mess of legacy and new settings. This gist of my eclipse.ini settings is for multi-core and tested on MS Vista 32-bit, AMD 2-cpu-core 2.6 GHZ, 4 gig ram, and [...]

ADT-Addons

Although refactoring features are already included in ADT and install sdk functionality might be appearing in ADT 11.0, you will rest of these adt-addons eclipse plugins useful to android development. The one I use right now is adding sources to the android container in my android projects.

Dalvik Fail to convert Error 2

Hello everyone.  Sometimes you will see a Dalvik failed to convert error 2. What is happening is that one Eclipse IDE ini file JVM setting in combination with using JVMs from Oracle 1.6.21 or later causes this conflict. The work around is to remove -XX:+AggressiveOpts from your ini file JVM settings.

IDE Performance Tunning

Usually when people refer to IDE performance tunning such s Eclipse they only talk of changing the Eclipse .ini file. If you are lucky to be using Eclipse under Linux there is one more setting that helps. That is change the priority form zero to about negative 5(-5) which tells the Linux OS to give [...]

Android Tools 8.0.1, Eclipse and ANT 1.8.1

First, if you are running android tools 8.0.1 from eclipse than everything works fine. Second, to run build using android tools 8.0.1 or higher outside of eclipse you must use ant 1.8.1 or higher. Most Linux version in theri beta/test repos already have compiled ant 1.8.1 binaries to install to run ant 1.8.1 form the [...]

The New ADT

Ah I think Google plans a nice x-mas present for android application developers in the form a new and improved ADT plugin. Visual Editor now has drag and drop! Proguard fully included. Heirarchy viewer no longer regulated to command-line as you will view it using the new ADT plugin. And also clicking on lines in logcat [...]

Eclipse and Android NDK

So I am on the last part of the AndCooperANT journey of adding Android NDK support that set of android application build scripts. So I am using Eclipse 3.5 and Android NDK r4b and need to set up a sample project to test my build scripts. Here is how I accomplish that so that I [...]

Android TestProject in parent project folder

Okay, time for some more eclipse tricks. Create new project, do not click finish yet!  Uncheck the default location and browser and select the parent project folder and in the address bar of project location type /test and you will see: Correction: Name Project ParentProjectNameTest, ADT plugin will show an extra project at workspace root(you [...]

Obfuscating from Eclipse

WARNING this is not for the faint-of-heart! It will break upon SDK revisions! Because it might result in more work for  GoogleOHA Engineers they might discourage it! WARNING, THIS ONLY WORKS WITH ECLIPSE! If you look at the SetUP Ant task code you will find that it checks for an sdk.ant.build.revision number with a max [...]

Classes Source for Eclipse

Okay folks, I have uploaded to dropbox classes source for 1.5, 1r3.6r2, 2.0.1r1, 2.1r1, and 2.2r1: 1.5 1.6 2.0.1 2.1 2.2 Unjar or unzip them into the sdk/platform/sources folder that you create and Eclipse than will recognize them.