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 [...]

Useful Tools

Good morning and welcome to the beginning of the Android ‘Land-grab’. Some useful tools: 1. OpenNCF has published their sdk for andorid and an android add on at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/open-nfc/files/ 2. The AppInventor site went live: http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/ Its a visual programming tool to develop android applications. 3. OpenFrameworks has released an android version for NDK development: [...]

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.

Froyo src.jar for Eclipse

The source to classes zip has been uploaded by a helpful soul and posted to the Issue 979. Please do not abuse his ISP, mirror it somewhere, the link is at the bottom. You put a sources folder in platform-8 folder and than Eclipse can see it, you might have to restart Eclipse if eclipse [...]

Checkstyle Settings

In the Android Programming Tools Knol collection, Checkstyle for Android with the checkstyle files to  use and Eclipse Checkstyle Settings for Android.