Start developing for Android? [closed]

Question

I've been wanting to develop applications for Android for a while now. I download the ADT Plugin for Eclipse from here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/eclipse-adt.html, and started to develop applications using Eclipse. However, even the simplest Hello World application seems to take a few minutes to run.

I was wondering if there are better environments for Android Development. Is it possible to develop application using NetBeans or other Java compilers? Are there faster development tools than the ADT Plugin for Eclipse?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If the application takes a long time to run, check one of two things:

Does your PC meets the requirements of eclipse.

If the application is taking a few minutes to run, it is quite possible that you may be closing the emulator after every debugging. This is unnecessary as the debugger is always listening for eclipse to run.

I do not know if these are possibilities, but I want your Android programming experience to be a good one. Troubleshooting is never useless :)