Setting up Android IDE

There are good tutorials to be found for setting up Android IDE, this guide is not intended as an out-dated copy of that:

• http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html

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:

• http://navandroid.blogspot.nl/2012/01/configuring-eclipse-37-workable-on.html

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:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10004995/openjdk-in-ubuntu-or-android-eclipse

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:
  • http://www.duinsoft.nl/packages.php?t=en