Setting up Android IDE: Difference between revisions

From WickyWiki
mNo edit summary
move tips and tricks
Line 1: Line 1:
See also [[Android Tips and Tricks]]


There are good tutorials to be found for setting up Android IDE:
There are good tutorials to be found for setting up Android IDE:
Line 32: Line 34:
* Use Oracle sun-Java VM 7:
* Use Oracle sun-Java VM 7:
** http://www.duinsoft.nl/packages.php?t=en
** http://www.duinsoft.nl/packages.php?t=en
= Tips and tricks =
== Rotate the Android Virtual Device (AVD) ==
CTRL+F11/F12
== Debug service ==
Somewhere, early in the code connect with the debugger:
<syntaxhighlight lang=java>
//TODO: wjv: remember to remove this for the final code
Toast toastwjv =  Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "waitForDebugger", Toast.LENGTH_LONG);
toastwjv.show();
android.os.Debug.waitForDebugger();
</syntaxhighlight>
== Android target version ==
Set target, like 16=4.1.2, 17=4.2.2, 18=4.3 in:
* modify AndroidManifest.xml
* modify project.properties
* Project - clean
== Eclipse hint color, javadoc background==
On Ubuntu the Javadoc background is black, links are difficult to read. Changing this in Eclipse: Window>Preferences>General>appearance>Colors and Fonts>Java does not work, it works if we change the hint colors for Ubuntu:
<syntaxhighlight lang=bash>
#backup
sudo cp /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-3.0/settings.ini /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-3.0/settings.ini.backup
sudo cp /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-3.0/gtk.css /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-3.0/gtk.css.backup
sudo cp /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc.backup
#foreground white => black
sudo sed -i s/tooltip_fg_color:#ffffff/tooltip_fg_color:#000000/g  /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-3.0/settings.ini /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-3.0/gtk.css /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
#background black => yellow
sudo sed -i s/tooltip_bg_color:#000000/tooltip_bg_color:#f5f5b5/g  /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-3.0/settings.ini /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-3.0/gtk.css /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
</syntaxhighlight>
* logout
* login


[[Category:Android]]
[[Category:Android]]
[[Category:201207]]
[[Category:201207]]

Revision as of 19:08, 1 September 2013

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