Android-Eclipse
Eclipse
The first step towards developing any applications is obtaining the integrated development environment (IDE). In the case of Android, the recommended IDE is Eclipse, a multi-language software development environment featuring an extensible plug-in system. It can be used to develop various types of applications,
using languages such as Java, Ada, C, C++, COBOL, Python, etc.
For Android development, you should download the Eclipse IDE for Java EE. Developers (www.eclipse .org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-java-eedevelopers/heliossr1). Six editions are available: Windows (32 and 64-bit), Mac OS X (Cocoa 32 and 64), and Linux (32 and 64-bit). Simply select the relevant one for your operating system. All the examples in this book were tested using the 32-bit version of Eclipse for Windows. Once the Eclipse IDE is downloaded, unzip its content (the eclipse folder) into a folder, say C:\Android\.
