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1page.title=Developer Tools
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9  <p>The Android Developer Tools (ADT) plugin for Eclipse provides
10    a professional-grade development environment for building
11  Android apps. It's a full Java IDE with advanced features to help you build, test, debug,
12  and package your Android apps. </p>
13  <p>Free, open-source, and runs on most major OS platforms.<br>To get started,
14  <a href="{@docRoot}sdk/index.html">download the Android SDK.</a></p>
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21<h3>Full Java IDE</h3>
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23  <ul>
24    <li>Android-specific refactoring, quick fixes, integrated navigation between Java and Android XML resources.</li>
25    <li>Enhanced XML editors for Android XML resources</li>
26    <li>Static analysis tools to catch performance, usability, and correctness problems</li>
27    <li>Build support for complex projects, command-line support for CI through Ant. Includes ProGuard and app-signing. </li>
28    <li>Template-based wizard to create standard Android projects and components.</li>
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33<h3>Graphical UI Builders</h3>
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35  <ul>
36    <li>Build rich Android UI with drag and drop.
37    <li>Vsualize your UI on tablets, phones, and other devices. Switch themes, locales, even plaform versions instantly, without building.</li>
38    <li>Visual refactoring lets you extracts layout for inclusion, convert layouts, extract styles</li>
39    <li>Editor support for working with custom UI components</li>
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44<h3>Develop on Hardware Devices</h3>
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46  <ul>
47    <li>Use any commercial Android hardware device or multiple devices.</li>
48    <li>Deploy your app to connected devices directy from the IDE</li>
49    <li>Live, on-device debugging, testing, and profiling</li>
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54<h3>Develop on Virtual Devices</h3>
55  <ul>
56    <li>Emulate any device. Use custom screen sizes, keyboards, and other hardware components. </li>
57    <li>Advanced hardware emulation, including camera, sensors, multitouch, telephony.</li>
58    <li>Develop and test for broadest compatibility at lowest cost.</li>
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66<h3>Powerful Debugging</h3>
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68  <ul>
69    <li>Full Java debugger with on-device debugging and Android-specific tools</li>
70    <li>Built-in memory analysis, performance/CPU profiling, OpenGL ES tracing.</li>
71    <li>Graphical tools for debugging and optimizing UI, runtime inspecton of UI structure and performance.</li>
72    <li>Runtime graphical analysis of your app's network bandwidth usage.</li>
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82<h3>Testing</h3>
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84  <ul>
85    <li>Fully instrumentated, scriptable test environment.</li>
86    <li>Integrated reports using standard test UI.</li>
87    <li>Create and run unit tests on hardware devices or emulator.</li>
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90<h3>Native Development</h3>
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92  <ul>
93    <li>Support for compiling and packaging existing code written in C or C++.</li>
94    <li>Support for packaging multiple architectures in a single binary, for broad compatibility.</li>
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