Android Development Tools (ADT)

Android Development Tools (ADT) is a plugin for the Eclipse IDE that is designed to give you a powerful, integrated environment in which to build Android applications.

Full Java IDE

·         Android-specific refactoring, quick fixes, integrated navigation between Java and XML resources.

·         Enhanced XML editors for Android XML resources.

·         Static analysis tools to catch performance, usability, and correctness problems.

·         Build support for complex projects, command-line support for CI through Ant. Includes ProGuard and app-signing.

·         Template-based wizard to create standard Android projects and components.

Graphical UI Builders

·         Build rich Android UI with drag and drop.

·         Visualize your UI on tablets, phones, and other devices. Switch themes, locales, even platform versions instantly, without building.

·         Visual refactoring lets you extracts layout for inclusion, convert layouts, extract styles.

·         Editor support for working with custom UI components.

On-device Developer Options

·         Enable debugging over USB.

·         Quickly capture bug reports onto the device.

·         Show CPU usage on screen.

·         Draw debugging information on screen such as layout bounds, updates on GPU views and hardware layers, and other information.

·         Plus many more options to simulate app stresses or enable debugging options.

Develop on Hardware Devices

·         Use any commercial Android hardware device or multiple devices.

·         Deploy your app to connected devices directy from the IDE.

·         Live, on-device debugging, testing, and profiling.

Develop on Virtual Devices

·         Emulate any device. Use custom screen sizes, keyboards, and other hardware components.

·         Advanced hardware emulation, including camera, sensors, multitouch, telephony.

·         Develop and test for broad device compatibility.

Powerful Debugging

·         Full Java debugger with on-device debugging and Android-specific tools.

·         Built-in memory analysis, performance/CPU profiling, OpenGL ES tracing.

·         Graphical tools for debugging and optimizing UI, runtime inspecton of UI structure and performance.

·         Runtime graphical analysis of your app's network bandwidth usage.

Testing

·         Fully instrumentated, scriptable test environment.

·         Integrated reports using standard test UI.

·         Create and run unit tests on hardware devices or emulator.

Native Development

·         Support for compiling and packaging existing code written in C or C++.

·         Support for packaging multiple architectures in a single binary, for broad compatibility.