What is the best IDE to develop Android apps in

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I am about to start developing an android app and need to get an IDE  Eclipse and the android eclipse plugin appears to be the natural choice  However I am familiar with intelliJ and re-sharper so I would prefer use intelliJ    Has anyone used https   code google com archive p idea-android   Is this any good   Should I just bite the bullet and learn Eclipse

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Of the existing IDEs  Ted Neward ranks them this way       Best  IntelliJ IDEA      Second  Netbeans      Third  Eclipse   He seems to think that Eclipse throws up a lot of  friction   hard to say what that means    Edit  years later  After attempting to use Eclipse Aptana for node development and using JetBrains products for node and ruby development I would absolutely start with IntelliJ IDEA and give that a try for the 30 day trial

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You can also develop rich UI filled Android applications using Adobe AIR  If you plan to go that route then Flex Builder Burrito is the best IDE  Take a look at this post as to how easy it is to build an AIR4Android app http   blog air4android com  p 13

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I Feel Eclipse IDE is more suitable for android applications rather than other IDEs  Because its providing us more than five perspectives which will make our project flexible and ease You may try Eclipse ides starts with 3 6 and above will provide you better performance   Eclipse jee indigo Eclipse java indigo Eclipse classic    The above eclipses are belongs to the version3 7 2 which are all latest and supports all kind of access

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If you do android native code development using NDK  give Visual Studio a try   Not a typo     Check out  http   ian-ni-lewis blogspot com 2011 01 its-like-coming-home-again html  and  http   code google com p vs-android

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I am a huge supporter of using the environment that is most familiar to you  However this isn t always the best option  In some cases  a different environment can result in  far   greater efficency in the long run   In this particular case I suspect that sticking with what you already know is a good option  but someone starting new would benifit from the easy setup and sdk ndk integration offered by eclipse  I also don t know how available geolocation manipulation  or phone state manipulation - ie incoming call etc  is in other IDE s  but integration within eclipse feels seamless   AIDE is a fun option that I use while traveling or when I don t feel like sitting at my desk all the time  It is an extrodinarly well put together IDE that runs on Android  compiles Android appications  and then lets you install  all without touching a computer  It includes a logcat readout  syntax highlighting and some git compatibility as well  Obviously you don t have a lot of screen real estate available and things can get cluttered or you can t see everything you want to at once  but for quick touchups or early in a project it is more than adequate

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An IDE which supports Android development is Processing for Android  http   wiki processing org w Android  Processing is its own language but it s easy to learn  Processing for Android requires the JDK and Android SDK to be installed but runs on its own  It runs on Linux  Mac OSX and Windows  on a side note  one can develop a desktop app in Processing and then compile it to target any of these operating systems   Its development is ongoing but it works  It s especially good for quickly sketching up an idea and running it on your Android phone  even if you plan to develop it further in another IDE    There is an active support forum here  http   forum processing org android-processing

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I think intellij is the best option for android  i have used both eclipse and intellij and found intellij is much easier to use with android as compared to eclipse because of these reasons  -  Intellij provides a built-in support for android and you don t have to configure it as you need to do with eclipse  Intellij gives you auto-lookup feature which is really important for developer like us to increase our productivity  And if we talk about eclipse you have to type each and every method  classname etc on your own   May be eclipse has this feature too but i never found it and trust me i tried to find it like anything  Its much more user friendly and easy to use than eclipse  I hope it will help you and other members of stack overflow to decide which IDE is best for Android development   My personal choice is Intellij   EDIT  But there is one thing i love about eclipse and that is visual layout creator  You can use drag and drop technique to create a layout and eclipse will automatically generate an XML file for you just like XCODE   EDIT  Good News   Intellij added a new feature which shows how your app s view is going to look like  It doesn t work exactly like Eclipse but it will give you a good idea about your layout   My personal choice is still Intellij because it helps me to type faster than eclipse   EDIT  Ok guys these days i am using eclipse juno and found its kind of buggy and slow  So if you still want to use eclipse better stick to some older version  And finally i am able to found how to enable auto-complete in eclipse  Below is a small tutorial   Eclipse -  Preference -   Java -  Editor -  Content Assist -  Auto Activation  Now put following in the three given boxes  Auto Activation delay ms  - 0 Auto activation triggers for java -   abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Auto activation triggers for javadoc -      You are now good to go  Happy coding   EDIT  As now Google has adopted Intellij for their own Android dev tool  there is no question now about which one is better  Intellij is far far better than eclipse  And i switched back to Intellij and it feels like i am back home    D

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Eclipse and Netbeans are both horrible slow  and I ts a miracle that even the serious developers has been sticking with it for years  not even try to stick with a better product   Java as platform is a shame when it comes to non-handheld platforms  win mac linux  and if anyone are going to develop on the platform I say do what else but do not use Java at all  For mobility it s probably has a kind of good luck here  as the systems are more down-scaled   As far I know  there aren t any existing IDE for Java which aren t iself written in a Java environment  This is horrible because Java is messing up the desktop  environment    I m willing to spend hours on google to find an Java IDE Editor which are capable for android projects but will use a native environment for itself

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Eclipse is the best IDE  It easy to setup android and debug applications in eclipse

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Unfortunately  there is no perfect IDE for Android  Eclipse has more features as it is the only IDE google developed plugin for  However  if you are just like me  tired of crashes and weired debug develop mode swithes  Use Netbeans plugin from http   nbandroid kenai com

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LATEST NEWS  Android Studio has officially come out of beta and been released  It is now the official IDE for Android Development - Eclipse won t be supported anymore  It is definitely the IDE of choice for Android Development  Link to download page  http   developer android com sdk index html    NEWS  As of Google I O 2013  the Android team has moved to IntelliJ Idea with the new Android Studio IDE  http   developer android com sdk installing studio html   Great to see Google endorse Idea  It is safe to say that Android Studio  and thus Idea  will from now on be the definitive IDE for Android development   D    ORIGINAL ANSWER  IntelliJ now has support for Android  See Enabling Android Support from the JetBrains help page and the Google Code project page for the plugin  The Getting Started wiki page is pretty helpful   If you are used to IntelliJ  I don t think it would be beneficial to switch IDEs just for Android tools  You can work on Android with any text editor  I use Vim   If you re more productive with a specific environment I don t see why you d have to learn a new one  Not worth it in my opinion  Plus I m a big IntelliJ fan  The IntelliJ plugin lets you make apk files and push the app to the emulator  that s all you need for Android app development  I d say you re safe sticking with IntelliJ   Update  there is now an official free IDE for IntelliJ android dev  http   blogs jetbrains com idea 2010 10 intellij-idea-10-free-ide-for-android-development

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For me the best is Motodev is a Eclipse plugin developed by Motorola

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Eclipse is not that hard to learn  I use both Eclipse and NetBeans  and I switch back and forth pretty effortlessly    If you re going to be learning Android development from the start  I can recommend Hello  Android  which I just finished   It shows you exactly how to use all the features of Eclipse that are useful for developing Android apps   There s also a brief section on getting set up to develop from the command line and from other IDEs

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Eclipse is the most widely used development environment for the Android platform  The reason is that even Google itself providing the plug-in to be added in eclipse and start developing the applications  I have tried installing it from the eclipse market place  it is very easy and simple to create the android application  set up also very simple

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One good system is Basic4Android - great for anyone familiar with Basic     Includes a visual designer for screen layouts   Can connect to the emulators available as part of the Android SDK  Makes it relatively easy to develop programs

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All of the full-featured Java IDE s are good and share all of the same concepts and main features  If you can find your way around one you can probably do the same for any other without much trouble   EDIT  Google gave us a wonderful gift with the new and free AndroidStudio is very good  I highly recommend it over Eclipse

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you can use Juno  i just find it  it s fastest than Helios that i worked with that  you can try it

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If you haven t installed Eclipse yet  I d recommend Motorola s MotoDev Studio   It does a lot of the annoying little tasks like set up your Android environment along with your paths  and adds a lot of nice built in functionality to Eclipse    Even if you ve already installed Eclipse  you can add it as a plugin  I haven t tried that myself   It is by Motorola  so they have some Motorola centric functionality as well  such as the ability to add your app to the Motorola market  Anyway if you re interested  give it a shot  http   developer motorola com docstools motodevstudio

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I advise Android bundle for TextMate  https   github com nesterow Android tmbundle It s lightweight and easy to use  There is no intellisense  but actually it just makes you remember namespaces better

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I ve been using IntelliJ IDEA for the last 12 months now as my main IDE  but I am often forced to use Eclipse as well  So when I have to work in Eclipse I start biting my nails  I will sum up my pros and cons   Eclipse pros  - visual editor  IDEA has one as well  but it s rather primitive  I suspect that this feature will soon be deleted as IDEA will improve its editor  - many projects into one right pane  this is also my personal con as I like IDEA s one-project-per-pane thing  - faster compiles Android projects  IDEA has made its compilation process faster  so I also soon expect to delete this Eclipse pro  IDEA pros  - faster intellisense  if you like Resharper  then you know what I am talking about  - smarter autocomplete - my friend and I decided to write the same class  I finished before him simply because IDEA faster reacts to my wishes - incredibly smart - do not know what to do  just press Ctrl Shift Space and IDEA will tell you what should come there  It also recognizes naming scheme to if you re filling name object  it will first display getName method  - will add more as I remember of them    IDEA cons  - Still the only con is that if you open Eclipse Android project and edit any XML layout file  Eclipse will no longer be able to display edited file into its visual layout editor  This has not been fixed as of this day and it s IDEA s bug as it somehow messes the XML   Bottom line  if you re a person who does not see advantages of ReSharper in  NET  and we all coded in  NET   then you ll probably stick to Eclipse  It s official Android IDE and you believe it s the best  If you liked ReSharper and want to code faster  then you ll appreciate IDEA and will stick to it forever

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