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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)?
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With the release of Android Studio 2.2, the time has now come to say goodbye to the Eclipse Android Developer Tools. We have formally ended their support and development. There's never been a better time to switch to Android Studio and experience the improvements we've made to the Android development workflow.
Android Studio is faster than Eclipse. There is no need to add a plugin to Android Studio but if we use Eclipse then we do need to. Eclipse needs many resources to start but Android Studio does not. Android Studio is based on IntelliJ's Idea Java IDE and Eclipse uses the ADT Plugin to develop Android applications.
It is preferable for the development of small applications. The IDE launched Eclipse is faster. It primarily supports java but can also works for different languages like C, C++, C#, PHP, Perl, and Ruby. Learn how to setup Eclipse for Android Application Development.
Eclipse is a powerful, open source, integrated development environment (IDE) that facilitates the creation of desktop, mobile, and web applications. Eclipse is a highly versatile and adaptable tool.
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.
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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.
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