How can I use MS Visual Studio for Android Development

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Can you use Visual Studio for Android Development   If so how would you set the android SDK instead of  NET framework and are there any special settings or configuration

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I know this q is quite old but it might me useful   http   blogs nvidia com 2013 02 nvidia-introduces-nsight-tegra-to-assist-android-developers

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Yes you can   http   www gavpugh com 2011 02 04 vs-android-developing-for-android-in-visual-studio     In case you get  Unable to locate tools jar  Expected to find it in C  Program Files  x86  Java jre6 lib tools jar  you can add an environment variable JAVA HOME that points to your Java JDK path  for example c  sdks glassfish3 jdk  restart MSVC afterwards   An even better solution is using WinGDB Mobile Edition in Visual Studio  it lets you create and debug Android projects all inside Visual Studio   http   ian-ni-lewis blogspot com 2011 01 its-like-coming-home-again html  Download WinGDC for Android from http   www wingdb com wgMobileEdition htm

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Believe me  I ve tried so hard to find a decent IDE for Android developement but I failed  I used Visual Studio for many years  and it is so hard for me to get use to the way Eclipse doing things    However  the new IntelliJ supports for Android development  it s the closest you can get

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I suppose you can open Java files in Visual Studio and just use the command line tools directly  I don t think you d get syntax highlighting or autocompletion though   Eclipse is really not all that different from Visual Studio  and there are a lot of tools that are designed to make Android development more comfortable that work from within Eclipse

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Much has changed since this question was asked  Visual Studio 2013 with update 4 and Visual Studio 2015 now have integrated tools for Apache Cordova and you can run them on a Visual Studio emulator for Android

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You can use Visual Studio for Android Development  See a nice article on it here

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Besides  you can use VS for Android development too  because in the end  the IDE is nothing but a fancy text editor with shortcuts to command line tools  so most popular IDE s can be used   However  if you want to develop fully native without restrictions  you ll have all kinds of issues  such as those related to file system case insensitivity and missing libraries on Windows platform     If you try to build windows mobile apps on Linux platform  you ll have bigger problems than other way around  but still makes most sense to use Linux with Eclipse for Android OS

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If you want to create an Android application using c  language you can use Xamarin  they created this great Cross Platform development tool which enables developers to develop iOS and Android apps in C  language      Xamarin is offered in different licenses from free to enterprise levels but for not I will be using the starter version which is the free version  It includes the Xamarin Studio which is great start for those who want to try out creating their first apps for Android  they also offer a Business license which lets you develop in Visual Studio so you can use that rich experience similar to developing Web Apps or Windows Apps  then they have this Enterprise which contains everything

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You can use Visual Studio 2015 to building cross-platform apps for Android  iOS  and Windows    IDE  https   www visualstudio com en-US explore cordova-vs  Hope this will help

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If you re interested in producing HTML5 hybrid applications  web apps wrapped in a native container giving access to device functions   the Nomad Visual Studio extension supports building for android devices

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From the Android documentation   The recommended way to develop an Android application is to use Eclipse with the ADT plugin    However  if you d rather develop your application in another IDE  such as IntelliJ  or in a basic editor  such as Emacs  you can do that instead   Currently  there are plug-ins for IntelliJ IDEA and NetBeans  but you can still use the tools in  tools to build  debug  monitor  measure and start the emulator

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That depends on what you actually want to achieve    You want to keep on making normal Java-based Android application  but use Visual Studio for development  Then it s bad news  as Visual Studio has no built-in java support  Thus  if you use it out-of-the-box  you will lose all Java-specific Eclipse functionality  IntelliSense for Java  Java debugger  wizards  etc  as well as numerous Android plugins  that are Eclipse-specific and won t work with VS    On the other hand  you can use Mono for Android to develop apps in C  in VS  but they won t look as smooth as the native apps  some functionality might be missing  look-and-feel slightly different  etc    In that case such app could sell less than a  normal  Java app that looks and feels like all other Java apps   If you are talking about native Android code  in C C     such as games  the news are not as bad  As Visual Studio has no problem with C    there are numerous ways to make it work    If you only want to compile your code  you can use the free vs-android toolset  It s essentially a set of build rules telling Visual Studio how to launch Android compiler  If you want to compile and debug your native code with Visual Studio  you will need something more advanced  such as VisualGDB for Android  It can build debug your Native code independently  or together with debugging Java code from Eclipse

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Yes  you can use Visual Studio for Android  native  using  vs-android     Here are the steps to set it up    Download the Android SDK here  Download the Android NDK here  Download Cygwin here  Download the JDK here  Download Visual Studio 2010  2012 or 2013 here  Download vs-android here  Download Apache Ant here  Set environment variables     Control Panel   System   Advanced   Environment Variables   ANDROID HOME    lt install path gt  android-sdk ANDROID NDK ROOT    lt install path gt  android-ndk ANT HOME     lt install path gt  apache-ant JAVA HOME    lt install path gt  jdk  JAVA OPTIONS   -Xms256m -Xmx512m      Download examples from here    It works like a charm    and best so far to use

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 now has options for Android development  C    Cordova  and C  with Xamarin  When choosing one of those Android development options  Visual Studio will also install the brand new Visual Studio Emulator for Android to use as a target for debugging your app  You can also download the emulator without needing to install Visual Studio  For more details see  Visuals Studio 2015 https   www visualstudio com en-us downloads visual-studio-2015-downloads-vs  Visual Studio Emulator https   www visualstudio com en-us features msft-android-emulator-vs aspx  Video of features https   channel9 msdn com Events Visual-Studio Visual-Studio-2015-Final-Release-Event Visual-Studio-Emulator-for-Android  Java Extension for Visuals Studio 2012  2013  2015  https   visualstudiogallery msdn microsoft com bc561769-36ff-4a40-9504-e266e8706f93

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