What plugin is better for development Android-applications? For Eclipse or IDEA? Can anybody advise? I have heard that IDEA plugin is still half-done. Help me make this choice

Hey tum0rc0re,

hm I had not seen that IDEA before, the AutoComplete in the AndroidManifest looks really nice
Do you know, whether the Eclipse-Plugin will provide such a feature somewhen too

Will have a look at it.

Regards,
plusminus

Eclipse is my favourite IDE...
it's complete, i can use it for C projects, other java projects and Android.
What's better?

evoc wrote:Eclipse is my favourite IDE...
it's complete, i can use it for C projects, other java projects and Android.
What's better?

All say that IDEA is better tool for development Java applications, but for Android I will use Eclipse ) It's free

Definatly Intellij is much better IDE for Java development, but it's not supported by google and its android plugin still has a lot of bugs.

fresco wrote:Definatly Intellij is much better IDE for Java development, but it's not supported by google and its android plugin still has a lot of bugs.

Clearly. Thanks for an opinion.

I use emacs.

IntelliJ isn't as well supported as Eclipse, so you need to do a few things.
After you've run:

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activityCreator [--out <folder>] [--ide intellij] your.package.name.ActivityName

You should tweak your generated build.xml:

1. Add 2 properties to the <!-- tools --> section:

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    <property name="adb" value="${android-tools}/adb.exe"/>
    <property name="emulator" value="${android-tools}/emulator.exe"/>


2. Modify your compile-target:

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BEFORE:
    <target name="compile" depends="dirs, resource-src, aidl">
        <javac encoding="ascii" target="1.5" debug="true" extdirs=""
AFTER:
    <target name="compile" depends="dirs, resource-src, aidl">
        <javac encoding="iso-8859-1" target="1.6" debug="true" extdirs=""


Just so you can use other character's than a-z, and I haven't had any problems with targetting 1.6

3. Create a new target after package e.g.:

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    <target name="run-and-install" depends="package">
        <parallel>
            <exec executable="${emulator}" failonerror="true">
                <arg value="-console"/>
            </exec>
            <sequential>
                <sleep seconds="10"/>
                <exec executable="${adb}" failonerror="true">
                    <arg value="install"/>
                    <arg value="${out-package}"/>
                </exec>
                <exec executable="${adb}" failonerror="true">
                    <arg value="logcat"/>
                    <arg value="${ant.project.name}:I"/>
                </exec>
            </sequential>
        </parallel>
    </target>


Something that runs the emulator, and install's the newly built app. (... and sets up some logging)

I use IDEA extensively for Java but have started using Eclipse for Android, its good to try something new and it seems very well supported.