Any Web & Java IDE's for the ARM architecture on Linux?

Question

I am currently running Debian Linux on an ARMv7 microprocessor (aka my android phone. ;)) it really runs great, without a single issue. With surprisingly a great deal amount of application support compiled for arm, as compared to many other arm based linux distros.

I would love to use it for some Web Development, as well as Java programming and compiling, but I am having a bit of trouble trying to find any IDE's that are either architecturally independent or compiled for the ARM processor..

One I am really curious about is, IntelliJ IDEA. But I cant figure out if it is architecturally independent or just x86 support only.

I also believe Netbeans is ready and compiled for NetBeans, but I am not a big user of it so I would prefer to use one of the ones I use more often. but if it comes to it, and it does support arm, I will definitely use it.

So what do you folks know of? Are there any programs that are compiled for arm that will suit this purpose for me? or am I stuck with Vim or something?

Answer 1

Well it never hurts to try :)

Have you downloaded the JRE for ARM from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/embedded/downloads/javase/index.html? Get that and download IntelliJ 11 Community Edition for linux and give it a go.

Answer 2

On the Samsung Chromebook Arm, Eclipse works when running Crouton and Ubuntu. At the command line, enter:

sudo apt-get install eclipse 

Ubuntu will automatically install Java JDK 6 for arm. Replacing it with Oracle Java JDK 8 for Arm will improve performance

Alternatively, when using Chroagh and Arch Linux, Intellij Idea works. At the command line, enter:

cd /usr/lib
sudo ln -s libgif.so libgif.so.4
pacman -S intellij-idea-community-edition

Intellij Idea install with Open-JDK7 for ARM, but you can replace it with Oracle JDK8 for ARM.

Lastly, I have had no luck installing Android-Studio or the Android SDK for Eclipse on either Ubuntu or Arch. Still searching for this solution.