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See also [[Android Tips and Tricks]]
See also [[Android Tips and Tricks]]
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Some optional pointers to improve performance of Eclipse:
Some optional pointers to improve performance of Eclipse:
* modify /opt/eclipse/eclipse.ini increase startup memory:
==modify /opt/eclipse/eclipse.ini increase startup memory==
<syntaxhighlight lang=ini>
<syntaxhighlight lang=ini>
-Xms64m
-Xms64m
</syntaxhighlight>
</syntaxhighlight>


* modify /opt/eclipse/eclipse.ini increase maximum memory:
==modify /opt/eclipse/eclipse.ini increase maximum memory==
<syntaxhighlight lang=ini>
<syntaxhighlight lang=ini>
-Xmx1024m
-Xmx1024m
</syntaxhighlight>
</syntaxhighlight>


* modify /opt/eclipse/eclipse.ini enable use of multiple processors:
==modify /opt/eclipse/eclipse.ini enable use of multiple processors==
<syntaxhighlight lang=ini>
<syntaxhighlight lang=ini>
-XX:-UseParallelGC
-XX:-UseParallelGC
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</syntaxhighlight>
</syntaxhighlight>


* Use Oracle sun-Java VM 7:
==Use Oracle sun-Java VM 7==
** https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-java-on-ubuntu-with-apt-get
 
* https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-java-on-ubuntu-with-apt-get


[[Category:Android]]
==increase Eclipse auto format line length==
[[Category:201207]]
 
* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3697287/eclipse-set-maximum-line-length-for-auto-formatting
 
In Menu -> Window -> Preferences -> Code Style -> Formatter, edit the profile. Under the Line Wrapping tab is the option for line width. You will need to make your own profile. 120 is a good value.

Latest revision as of 20:52, 3 September 2014


See also Android Tips and Tricks

There are good tutorials to be found for setting up Android IDE:

Update: there are complete Eclipse+Android packages that you can unzip and use.

Currently the official guide will use Eclipse 3.6, if you want to use Eclipse 3.7 or later you might want to use this guide:

The official guide tells you to use intall sun java (sun-java6-jdk). As I don't have that installed by default I use openjdk (java-6-openjdk) Additional info:

Some optional pointers to improve performance of Eclipse:

modify /opt/eclipse/eclipse.ini increase startup memory

-Xms64m

modify /opt/eclipse/eclipse.ini increase maximum memory

-Xmx1024m

modify /opt/eclipse/eclipse.ini enable use of multiple processors

-XX:-UseParallelGC
-XX:+AggressiveOpts
-XX:-UseConcMarkSweepGC
-XX:+UseFastAccessorMethods

Use Oracle sun-Java VM 7

increase Eclipse auto format line length

In Menu -> Window -> Preferences -> Code Style -> Formatter, edit the profile. Under the Line Wrapping tab is the option for line width. You will need to make your own profile. 120 is a good value.