Android Developer Tools (ADT) plugin for Eclipse

Developer Tools

The Android Developer Tools (ADT) plugin for Eclipse provides a professional-grade development environment for building Android apps. It's a full Java IDE with advanced features to help you build, test, debug, and package your Android apps.
Free, open-source, and runs on most major OS platforms.
To get started, download the Android SDK.

Full Java IDE

• Android-specific refactoring, quick fixes, integrated navigation between Java and Android XML resources.
• Enhanced XML editors for Android XML resources
• Static analysis tools to catch performance, usability, and correctness problems
• Build support for complex projects, command-line support for CI through Ant. Includes ProGuard and app-signing.
• Template-based wizard to create standard Android projects and components.

Graphical UI Builders

• Build rich Android UI with drag and drop.
• Visualize your UI on tablets, phones, and other devices. Switch themes, locales, even platform versions instantly, without building.
• Visual refactoring lets you extracts layout for inclusion, convert layouts, extract styles
• Editor support for working with custom UI components

Develop on Hardware Devices

• Use any commercial Android hardware device or multiple devices.
• Deploy your app to connected devices directy from the IDE
• Live, on-device debugging, testing, and profiling

Develop on Virtual Devices

• Emulate any device. Use custom screen sizes, keyboards, and other hardware components.
• Advanced hardware emulation, including camera, sensors, multitouch, telephony.
• Develop and test for broadest compatibility at lowest cost.

Powerful Debugging

• Full Java debugger with on-device debugging and Android-specific tools
• Built-in memory analysis, performance/CPU profiling, OpenGL ES tracing.
• Graphical tools for debugging and optimizing UI, runtime inspecton of UI structure and performance.
• Runtime graphical analysis of your app's network bandwidth usage.

Testing

• Fully instrumentated, scriptable test environment.
• Integrated reports using standard test UI.
• Create and run unit tests on hardware devices or emulator.

Native Development

• Support for compiling and packaging existing code written in C or C++.
• Support for packaging multiple architectures in a single binary, for broad compatibility.