1 page.title=Developer Tools 2 @jd:body 3 <div id="butterbar-wrapper" > 4 <div id="butterbar" > 5 <div id="butterbar-message"> 6 <a target="_blank" href="https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/forms/d/1EHLPGqhbxj2HungHRRN4_0K9TGpc-Izy-u46vBDgS8Q/viewform"> 7 Take the Android Developer Survey</a> 8 </div> 9 </div> 10 </div> 11 12 <img src="{@docRoot}images/tools-home.png" style="float:right;" height="415" width="763" /> 13 14 <div style="position:relative;height:0"> 15 <div style="position:absolute;width:420px"> 16 <p>The Android Developer Tools (ADT) plugin for Eclipse provides 17 a professional-grade development environment for building 18 Android apps. It's a full Java IDE with advanced features to help you build, test, debug, 19 and package your Android apps. </p> 20 <p>Free, open-source, and runs on most major OS platforms.<br>To get started, 21 <a href="{@docRoot}sdk/index.html">download the Android SDK.</a></p> 22 </div> 23 </div> 24 25 <div style="margin-top:20px;"></div> 26 27 <div class="col-7" style="margin-left:0"> 28 <h3>Full Java IDE</h3> 29 30 <ul> 31 <li>Android-specific refactoring, quick fixes, integrated navigation between Java and XML resources.</li> 32 <li>Enhanced XML editors for Android XML resources.</li> 33 <li>Static analysis tools to catch performance, usability, and correctness problems.</li> 34 <li>Build support for complex projects, command-line support for CI through Ant. Includes ProGuard and app-signing. </li> 35 <li>Template-based wizard to create standard Android projects and components.</li> 36 </ul> 37 </div> 38 39 40 <div class="col-6" style="margin-right:0"> 41 42 <h3>Graphical UI Builders</h3> 43 <ul> 44 <li>Build rich Android UI with drag and drop. 45 <li>Visualize your UI on tablets, phones, and other devices. Switch themes, locales, even platform versions instantly, without building.</li> 46 <li>Visual refactoring lets you extracts layout for inclusion, convert layouts, extract styles.</li> 47 <li>Editor support for working with custom UI components.</li> 48 </ul> 49 50 </div> 51 52 53 <div class="col-7" style="clear:both;margin-left:0;"> 54 55 <h3>On-device Developer Options</h3> 56 <ul> 57 <li>Enable debugging over USB.</li> 58 <li>Quickly capture bug reports onto the device.</li> 59 <li>Show CPU usage on screen.</li> 60 <li>Draw debugging information on screen such as layout bounds, 61 updates on GPU views and hardware layers, and other information.</li> 62 <li>Plus many more options to simulate app stresses or enable debugging options.</li> 63 </ul> 64 <p>To access these settings, open the <em>Developer options</em> in the 65 system Settings. On Android 4.2 and higher, the Developer options screen is 66 hidden by default. To make it available, go to 67 <b>Settings > About phone</b> and tap <b>Build number</b> seven times. Return to the previous 68 screen to find Developer options.</p> 69 70 </div> 71 72 <div class="col-6" style="margin-right:0"> 73 <img src="{@docRoot}images/tools/dev-options-inmilk.png" alt="" style="margin:-10px 0 0;"> 74 </div> 75 76 77 <div class="col-7" style="clear:both;margin-left:0;"> 78 <h3>Develop on Hardware Devices</h3> 79 80 <ul> 81 <li>Use any commercial Android hardware device or multiple devices.</li> 82 <li>Deploy your app to connected devices directy from the IDE.</li> 83 <li>Live, on-device debugging, testing, and profiling.</li> 84 </ul> 85 </div> 86 87 <div class="col-6" style="margin-right:0"> 88 <h3>Develop on Virtual Devices</h3> 89 <ul> 90 <li>Emulate any device. Use custom screen sizes, keyboards, and other hardware components. </li> 91 <li>Advanced hardware emulation, including camera, sensors, multitouch, telephony.</li> 92 <li>Develop and test for broad device compatibility.</li> 93 </ul> 94 95 </div> 96 97 <div style="margin-top:20px;"></div> 98 99 <div class="col-7" style="margin-left:0"> 100 <h3>Powerful Debugging</h3> 101 102 <ul> 103 <li>Full Java debugger with on-device debugging and Android-specific tools.</li> 104 <li>Built-in memory analysis, performance/CPU profiling, OpenGL ES tracing.</li> 105 <li>Graphical tools for debugging and optimizing UI, runtime inspecton of UI structure and performance.</li> 106 <li>Runtime graphical analysis of your app's network bandwidth usage.</li> 107 </ul> 108 109 <h3>Testing</h3> 110 111 <ul> 112 <li>Fully instrumentated, scriptable test environment.</li> 113 <li>Integrated reports using standard test UI.</li> 114 <li>Create and run unit tests on hardware devices or emulator.</li> 115 </ul> 116 117 <h3>Native Development</h3> 118 119 <ul> 120 <li>Support for compiling and packaging existing code written in C or C++.</li> 121 <li>Support for packaging multiple architectures in a single binary, for broad compatibility.</li> 122 </ul> 123 </div> 124 125 <div class="col-6" style="margin-right:0"> 126 <img src="{@docRoot}images/debugging-tall.png" align="left" style="margin-top:10px"> 127 </div> 128 129 130
