Android development without using Eclipse [closed]

Question

Ok so I am an avid user of Emacs and tend to stay away from using IDE's unless I absolutely have to and I see that it is recommended to use Eclipse with a plugin for developing android. I was just wondering if it is really necessary to use the Eclipse plugin (or some others out there)?

Answer 1

You can absolutely use Emacs: http://riddell.us/AndroidWithEmacsOnUbuntu.html. (This site has disappeared but a copy was captured by the Wayback Machine which can be found here http://web.archive.org/web/20120321225744/http://riddell.us/AndroidWithEmacsOnUbuntu.html) It describes how to use Emacs and only Emacs for a test application. No Eclipse.

Answer 2

I recently wrote some code to allow the use of CEDET with Android projects. This is currently in a bzr development branch of CEDET on sourceforge. The post is here:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27126953

It supports creating a new android project, builds, starting up the debugger, installing on a device and moving between some XML files and some matching .java files, and vs-versa. It includes some fixes to the java support and smart completion also.

As with most things of this nature, help getting it more robust is welcome.

Basic instructions for download are here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cedet/develop

and you'll need the android branch.