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5<div id="qv-wrapper">
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7
8  <h2>See also</h2>
9  <ol>
10    <li><a href="{@docRoot}sdk/installing/installing-adt.html">Installing the Eclipse
11Plugin</a></li>
12  </ol>
13
14</div>
15</div>
16
17<p>Android Development Tools (ADT) is a plugin for the Eclipse IDE
18that is designed to give you a powerful, integrated environment in which
19to build Android applications.</p>
20
21<p>ADT extends the capabilities of Eclipse to let you quickly set up new Android
22projects, create an application UI, add packages based on the Android
23Framework API, debug your applications using the Android SDK tools, and even
24export signed (or unsigned) {@code .apk} files in order to distribute your application.</p>
25
26<p>Developing in Eclipse with ADT is highly recommended and is the fastest way
27to get started. With the guided project setup it provides, as well as tools
28integration, custom XML editors, and debug output pane, ADT gives you an
29incredible boost in developing Android applications. </p>
30
31<p>This document provides step-by-step instructions on how to download the ADT
32plugin and install it into your Eclipse development environment. Note that
33before you can install or use ADT, you must have compatible versions of both the
34Eclipse IDE and the Android SDK installed. For details, make sure to read <a
35href="{@docRoot}sdk/installing/installing-adt.html">Installing the Eclipse
36Plugin</a>. </p>
37
38<p>If you are already using ADT, this document also provides instructions on
39how to update ADT to the latest version or how to uninstall it, if necessary.
40</p>
41
42<p>For information about the features provided by the ADT plugin, such as code
43editor features, SDK tool integration, and the graphical layout editor (for drag-and-drop layout
44editing), see the <a href="{@docRoot}tools/help/adt.html">Android Developer Tools</a>
45document.</p>
46
47
48<h2 id="notes">Revisions</h2>
49
50<p>The sections below provide notes about successive releases of
51the ADT Plugin, as denoted by revision number. </p>
52
53<p>For a summary of all known issues in ADT, see <a
54href="http://tools.android.com/knownissues">http://tools.android.com/knownissues</a>.</p>
55
56
57<div class="toggle-content opened">
58  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
59    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-opened.png" class="toggle-content-img"
60      alt=""/>ADT 22.3.0</a> <em>(October 2013)</em>
61  </p>
62
63  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
64<dl>
65  <dt>Dependencies:</dt>
66
67  <dd>
68    <ul>
69      <li>Java 1.6 or higher is required.</li>
70      <li>Eclipse Helios (Version 3.6.2) or higher is required.</li>
71      <li>This version of ADT is designed for use with
72        <a href="{@docRoot}tools/sdk/tools-notes.html">SDK Tools r22.3</a>.
73        If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r22.3 into your SDK, use the
74        Android SDK Manager to do so.</li>
75    </ul>
76  </dd>
77
78  <dt>General Notes:</dt>
79  <dd>
80    <ul>
81      <li>Added support for Android 4.4 (API level 19).</li>
82      <li>Fixed problem with parsing view hierarchies containing classes in the java.*
83        name space.</li>
84      <li>Fixed problem importing Android projects that have the same name as an existing
85        project.</li>
86    </ul>
87  </dd>
88
89</dl>
90</div>
91</div>
92
93
94<div class="toggle-content closed">
95  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
96    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
97      alt=""/>ADT 22.2.1</a> <em>(September 2013)</em>
98  </p>
99
100  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
101<dl>
102  <dt>Dependencies:</dt>
103
104  <dd>
105    <ul>
106      <li>Java 1.6 or higher is required.</li>
107      <li>Eclipse Helios (Version 3.6.2) or higher is required.</li>
108      <li>This version of ADT is designed for use with
109        <a href="{@docRoot}tools/sdk/tools-notes.html">SDK Tools r22.2.1</a>.
110        If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r22.2.1 into your SDK, use the
111        Android SDK Manager to do so.</li>
112    </ul>
113  </dd>
114
115  <dt>General Notes:</dt>
116  <dd>
117    <ul>
118      <li>Fixed problem with templates that causes the new project wizard to hang.
119       (<a href="http://b.android.com/60149">Issue 60149</a>)</li>
120    </ul>
121  </dd>
122
123</dl>
124</div>
125</div>
126
127
128<div class="toggle-content closed">
129  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
130    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
131      alt=""/>ADT 22.2</a> <em>(September 2013)</em>
132  </p>
133
134  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
135<dl>
136  <dt>Dependencies:</dt>
137
138  <dd>
139    <ul>
140      <li>Java 1.6 or higher is required.</li>
141      <li>Eclipse Helios (Version 3.6.2) or higher is required.</li>
142      <li>This version of ADT is designed for use with
143        <a href="{@docRoot}tools/sdk/tools-notes.html">SDK Tools r22.2</a>.
144        If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r22.2 into your SDK, use the
145        Android SDK Manager to do so.</li>
146    </ul>
147  </dd>
148
149  <dt>General Notes:</dt>
150  <dd>
151    <ul>
152      <li>Updated build tools to allow use of RenderScript on older versions of Android
153       using new features in the
154       <a href="{@docRoot}tools/support-library/features.html#v8">Support Library</a>.</li>
155      <li>Reverted signing changes that sometimes trigger a signing verification problem on older
156        platforms.</li>
157      <li>Fixed problem with gradle export function for the Windows platform.</li>
158    </ul>
159  </dd>
160
161</dl>
162</div>
163</div>
164
165
166<div class="toggle-content closed">
167  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
168    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
169      alt=""/>ADT 22.0.5</a> <em>(July 2013)</em>
170  </p>
171
172  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
173<dl>
174  <dt>Dependencies:</dt>
175
176  <dd>
177    <ul>
178      <li>Java 1.6 or higher is required.</li>
179      <li>Eclipse Helios (Version 3.6.2) or higher is required.</li>
180      <li>This version of ADT is designed for use with
181        <a href="{@docRoot}tools/sdk/tools-notes.html">SDK Tools r22.0.5</a>.
182        If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r22.0.5 into your SDK, use the
183        Android SDK Manager to do so.</li>
184    </ul>
185  </dd>
186
187  <dt>General Notes:</dt>
188  <dd>
189    <ul>
190      <li>Fixed RenderScript compilation issue for Windows platforms.</li>
191      <li>Updated <a href="{@docRoot}tools/help/systrace.html">Systrace</a> report generation
192        in the Monitor and DDMS perspectives.</li>
193    </ul>
194  </dd>
195
196</dl>
197</div>
198</div>
199
200
201<div class="toggle-content closed">
202  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
203    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
204      alt=""/>ADT 22.0.4</a> <em>(July 2013)</em>
205  </p>
206
207  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
208<dl>
209  <dt>Dependencies:</dt>
210
211  <dd>
212    <ul>
213      <li>Java 1.6 or higher is required.</li>
214      <li>Eclipse Helios (Version 3.6.2) or higher is required.</li>
215      <li>This version of ADT is designed for use with
216        <a href="{@docRoot}tools/sdk/tools-notes.html">SDK Tools r22.0.4</a>.
217        If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r22.0.4 into your SDK, use the
218        Android SDK Manager to do so.</li>
219    </ul>
220  </dd>
221
222  <dt>General Notes:</dt>
223  <dd>
224    <ul>
225      <li>Fixed problem with compiling RenderScript code.</li>
226      <li>Improved Gradle export with better workflow and error reporting.</li>
227      <li>Improved Gradle multi-module export feature.</li>
228      <li>Updated build logic to force exporting of the classpath containers unless you are using
229        the Maven plugin.</li>
230    </ul>
231  </dd>
232
233</dl>
234</div>
235</div>
236
237
238<div class="toggle-content closed">
239  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
240    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
241      alt=""/>ADT 22.0.1</a> <em>(May 2013)</em>
242  </p>
243
244  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
245<dl>
246  <dt>Dependencies:</dt>
247
248  <dd>
249    <ul>
250      <li>Java 1.6 or higher is required.</li>
251      <li>Eclipse Helios (Version 3.6.2) or higher is required.</li>
252      <li>This version of ADT is designed for use with
253        <a href="{@docRoot}tools/sdk/tools-notes.html">SDK Tools r22.0.1</a>.
254        If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r22.0.1 into your SDK, use the
255        Android SDK Manager to do so.</li>
256    </ul>
257  </dd>
258
259  <dt>General Notes:</dt>
260  <dd>
261    <ul>
262      <li>Fixed issue with Lint ServiceCast check and fully qualified class names.
263        (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=55403">Issue 55403</a>)</li>
264      <li>Fixed crash issue with Lint ArraySizeDetector check.
265        (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=54887">Issue 54887</a>)</li>
266      <li>Fixed problem with the Gradle export feature.</li>
267      <li>Fixed version check issue for the ADT Plugin.</li>
268    </ul>
269  </dd>
270
271</dl>
272</div>
273</div>
274
275<div class="toggle-content closed">
276  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
277    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
278      alt=""/>ADT 22.0.0</a> <em>(May 2013)</em>
279  </p>
280
281  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
282<dl>
283  <dt>Dependencies:</dt>
284
285  <dd>
286    <ul>
287      <li>Java 1.6 or higher is required.</li>
288      <li>Eclipse Helios (Version 3.6.2) or higher is required.</li>
289      <li>This version of ADT is designed for use with
290        <a href="{@docRoot}tools/sdk/tools-notes.html">SDK Tools r22</a>.
291        If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r22 into your SDK, use the
292        Android SDK Manager to do so.</li>
293    </ul>
294  </dd>
295
296  <dt>General Notes:</dt>
297  <dd>
298    <ul>
299      <li>Updated tools to allow libraries to share the same package name as the applications
300        that use them.</li>
301      <li>Added new Lint checks, including checks for layout consistency,
302        {@link android.widget.RelativeLayout} siblings, {@link android.os.Parcel} creator,
303        JavaScript interfaces, {@link android.app.Service} casting, quantity strings, manifest
304        typos, orientation tags in layouts, overlapping names for 9-patches and images, and class
305        existence checks.</li>
306      <li>Updated build tools to sign applications using the BouncyCastle library instead of
307        relying on Sun JVM specific APIs.</li>
308      <li>Added an experimental Gradle build export feature for moving projects into the
309        <a href="{@docRoot}sdk/installing/studio.html">Android Studio</a> environment or for
310        setting up command-line builds with Gradle.
311        (<a href="http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system">more info</a>)</li>
312    </ul>
313  </dd>
314
315</dl>
316</div>
317</div>
318
319<div class="toggle-content closed">
320  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
321    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
322      alt=""/>ADT 21.1.0</a> <em>(February 2013)</em>
323  </p>
324
325  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
326<dl>
327  <dt>Dependencies:</dt>
328
329  <dd>
330    <ul>
331      <li>Java 1.6 or higher is required.</li>
332      <li>Eclipse Helios (Version 3.6.2) or higher is required.</li>
333      <li>This version of ADT is designed for use with
334        <a href="{@docRoot}tools/sdk/tools-notes.html">SDK Tools r21.1</a>.
335        If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r21.1 into your SDK, use the
336        Android SDK Manager to do so.</li>
337    </ul>
338  </dd>
339
340  <dt>General Notes:</dt>
341  <dd>
342    <ul>
343      <li>Added new <a href="{@docRoot}tools/projects/templates.html">code templates</a> for
344        notifications, blank fragments and list fragments.</li>
345      <li>Added support for resource rename refactoring. Renaming a resource XML file, drawable
346        icon, an {@code R.} field name or ID in the layout editor invokes a refactoring routine
347        to update all resource references.</li>
348      <li>Added more than 15 new Lint checks, including checks for overriding older APIs, XML
349        resource problems, graphic asset issues and manifest tags.
350      <li>Updated XML Editor to respond to refactoring shortcut keys such as <strong>Refactor
351        &gt; Rename</strong>.</li>
352      <li>Updated XML Editor to improve double click handling.</li>
353      <li>Added code completion improvements for custom views, theme references and class
354        references. For example, code completion in a {@code &lt;fragment android:name="" &gt;} tag
355        now suggests completion with a list of fragment classes. Similarly, code completion in the
356        manifest now offers implementations suitable for the given tag.</li>
357      <li>Updated the <strong>Project Import</strong> dialog so that it shows a table for all
358        imported projects where you can edit the name of the imported project.</li>
359      <li>Added support for layout aliases in the Layout Editor.</li>
360    </ul>
361  </dd>
362
363  <dt>Bug fixes:</dt>
364  <dd>
365    <ul>
366      <li>Fixed issued with refactoring support for renaming and moving classes and packages.
367      </li>
368    </ul>
369  </dd>
370
371</dl>
372</div>
373</div>
374
375
376
377<div class="toggle-content closed">
378  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
379    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
380      alt=""/>ADT 21.0.1</a> <em>(December 2012)</em>
381  </p>
382
383  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
384<dl>
385  <dt>Dependencies:</dt>
386
387  <dd>
388    <ul>
389      <li>Java 1.6 or higher is required.</li>
390      <li>Eclipse Helios (Version 3.6.2) or higher is required.</li>
391      <li>This version of ADT is designed for use with
392        <a href="{@docRoot}tools/sdk/tools-notes.html">SDK Tools r21.0.1</a>.
393        If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r21.0.1 into your SDK, use the
394        Android SDK Manager to do so.</li>
395    </ul>
396  </dd>
397
398  <dt>General Notes:</dt>
399  <dd>
400    <ul>
401      <li>Build
402        <ul>
403          <li>Updated build to detect and handle package name conflicts between an application and
404            the libraries it depends on. Libraries cannot share package names unless all of them
405            share the same package name.
406            (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=40152">Issue 40152</a>,
407             <a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=40273">Issue 40273</a>)
408          </li>
409          <li>Added a flag to disable dex merging to deal with cases where merging could generate
410            a broken dex file. If this happens to your project, add the following setting to your
411            {@code project.properties} file: {@code dex.disable.merger=true} This setting
412            causes the build system to revert to the older, slower dex processing that does not
413            pre-dex libraries.</li>
414        </ul>
415      </li>
416    </ul>
417  </dd>
418
419  <dt>Bug fixes:</dt>
420  <dd>
421    <ul>
422      <li>Lint
423        <ul>
424          <li>Corrected check for {@code 0px} values in style XML elements.
425            (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39601">Issue 39601</a>)
426            </li>
427          <li>Fixed incorrect flagging of formatting strings.
428            (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39758">Issue 39758</a>)
429            </li>
430          <li>Fixed problem where {@code tools:ignore} directive in the manifest file was ignored
431            by the Lint tool.
432            (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=40136">Issue 40136</a>)
433            </li>
434          <li>Fixed problem with flagging a wakelock release inside a conditional.
435            (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=40424">Issue 40424</a>)
436            </li>
437          <li>Fixed incorrect reporting of missing {@code layout_width} and {@code layout_height}
438            XML fields.
439            (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=38958">Issue 38958</a>)
440            </li>
441          <li>Fixed handling of custom namespace attributes.</li>
442          <li>Added fixes for filtering out library project warnings.</li>
443          <li>Removed warnings about missing classes before a build.</li>
444        </ul>
445      </li>
446
447      <li>Android Virtual Device Manager
448        <ul>
449          <li>Fixed handling of {@code devices.xml} file in other locales.
450            (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39704">Issue 39704</a>)
451            </li>
452          <li>Fixed problem where the AVD Manager would not allow you to create a new AVD using
453            the <strong>4.0" WVGA</strong> or <strong> 4.65" 720p</strong> device definitions.
454            (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39939">Issue 39939</a>)
455            </li>
456          <li>Fixed problem where deleted device definitions were not removed.</li>
457          <li>Fixed incorrect screen resolution setting for the Nexus One device definition.</li>
458          <li>Fixed problem where writing of an AVD settings file does not properly escape
459            {@code \\} path characters.</li>
460        </ul>
461      </li>
462
463      <li>Layout Editor
464        <ul>
465          <li>Fixed problem where layout cannot render strings starting with {@code \@}.
466            (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=40222">Issue 40222</a>)
467            </li>
468          <li>Fixed preview error when using the {@code android:numColumns} attribute in a layout.
469            (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=21296">Issue 21296</a>)
470            </li>
471          <li>Fixed compatibility issue with IntelliJ layout preview caused by layout editor
472            deleting the {@code .android/devices.xml} file.</li>
473          <li>Added fixes to editor for {@link android.widget.GridLayout}.</li>
474        </ul>
475      </li>
476
477      <li>Added support for {@code ldrtl} and {@code ldltr} resource qualifiers.</li>
478      <li>Fixed problem where Android XML resources mistakenly get compiled into {@code *.out.xml}
479        output files, causing project errors.
480        (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3767">Issue 3767</a>)</li>
481      <li>Fixed error which caused resource refresh operations to fail.
482        (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39213">Issue 39213</a>)</li>
483      <li>Updated the Custom View code template handle to library projects properly.</li>
484      <li>Fixed support for library string resources ({@code strings.xml}) when exporting an
485        application that references a library with string resources.
486        (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39751">Issue 39751</a>)</li>
487      <li>Fixed problem where bad AVD setting files caused Device Manager and graphical XML editors
488        to crash.
489        (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=40400">Issue 40400</a>)</li>
490    </ul>
491  </dd>
492
493</dl>
494</div>
495</div>
496
497<div class="toggle-content closed">
498  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
499    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
500      alt=""/>ADT 21.0.0</a> <em>(November 2012)</em>
501  </p>
502
503  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
504<dl>
505  <dt>Dependencies:</dt>
506
507  <dd>
508    <ul>
509      <li>Java 1.6 or higher is required.</li>
510      <li>Eclipse Helios (Version 3.6.2) or higher is required.</li>
511      <li>This version of ADT is designed for use with
512        <a href="{@docRoot}tools/sdk/tools-notes.html">SDK Tools r21</a>.
513        If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r21.0.0 into your SDK, use the
514        Android SDK Manager to do so.</li>
515    </ul>
516  </dd>
517
518  <dt>General improvements:</dt>
519  <dd>
520    <ul>
521      <li>Layout Editor
522        <ul>
523          <li>Added multi-configuration editing feature that was previewed at Google I/O
524            developer tools talk in June. For an overview, see the
525            <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erd2k6EKxCQ">session recording</a>
526            (starting at: 20:30).</li>
527          <li>Modified the layout logic so that setting a {@link android.app.Fragment} layout or
528            a {@link android.widget.ListView} preview layout is now applied not
529            only to the current layout but to all other configurations of the same layout.</li>
530          <li>Updated the editor to include resources from library projects in the resource chooser,
531            XML code completion, Go To Declaration and other editing contexts.</li>
532          <li>Updated the editor so that it  no longer forces all variations of a single
533            layout into a single editor. You can, for example, open both the landscape and portrait
534            versions of a layout as separate editors and quickly switch between them, or even
535            re-dock your editors to edit them simultaneously. If you prefer the previous behavior,
536            set the new option in <strong>Preferences &gt; Android &gt; Editors</strong> to use the
537            old behavior.</li>
538          <li>Improved the handling of {@link android.widget.RelativeLayout} in the layout editor,
539            so that dragging widgets around and deleting them should now result in the layout
540            working more intuitively. In particular, deleting a widget causes the constraints
541            flowing through the deleted widgets to be intelligently adjusted, and when moving
542            widgets the constraints are preserved whenever possible.</li>
543          <li>Added the ability to specify a default action in Layout Editor views, which you can
544            invoke with the <em>F2</em> key. For example, after dropping a button or text view,
545            you can press <em>F2</em> to edit its text.</li>
546          <li>Added renaming of an ID (changing the {@code android:id} attribute) by invoking the
547            <strong>Rename</strong> shortcut.</li>
548          <li>Adding a new locale is now easier with the new <strong>Add Locale...</strong> action
549            in the locale menu. In addition to creating the new values folder, it lets you edit an
550            initial set of translations for the new locale.</li>
551          <li>Updated the editor so that when a custom view (or incorrectly configured view)
552            throws an exception during initialization or painting, part of the relevant stack trace
553            is shown inline in the layout editor, and you can click on the stack frames to jump to
554            the relevant location</li>
555          <li>Improved the editor error display to show the relevant part of a stack trace
556            when a custom view throws exceptions during rendering or construction, and provides
557            hyperlinks to the stack frames.</li>
558          <li>Improved the stack trace display for exceptions for custom views that are generated
559            during rendering.</li>
560          <li>Updated the configuration chooser so that it shows full language and region names (not
561            just 2-letter codes) in menus, in the configuration dialog and other editing contexts.
562            </li>
563          <li>Improved the device menu in the configuration chooser.</li>
564        </ul>
565      </li>
566      <li>Lint
567        <ul>
568          <li>Added over 25 new lint rules for resources, locale settings, layout
569            files, incorrect use of {@link android.util.SparseArray} and
570            {@link android.os.PowerManager.WakeLock} and manifest issues.</li>
571          <li>Improved the XML export function to support the
572            <a href="https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Android+Lint+Plugin">Jenkins Lint
573            plugin</a>.
574          </li>
575        </ul>
576      </li>
577      <li>Editors
578        <ul>
579          <li>Modified the plugin to remember which editor mode (text or graphical) you were last
580            using for each type of editor (layout, manifest or values) and uses that mode for newly
581            opened files. This means that if you prefer to work with just XML, the editors start
582            showing you XML text editors after you have switched to them for each type of editor.</li>
583          <li>Updated XML code completion so that it completes (and shows documentation for) theme
584            references, such as {@code ?android:attr/dividerHeight}.</li>
585        </ul>
586      </li>
587      <li>Android Virtual Devices (AVD)
588        <ul>
589          <li>Added new <strong>Device Definitions</strong> tab in the AVD Manager for configuring
590            standard size and Nexus virtual devices.</li>
591          <li>Improved emulators so that they launch with a skin that is dynamically generated and
592            reflects the actual hardware configured in the AVD Manager.</li>
593        </ul>
594      </li>
595      <li>Improved the new template mechanism, cleaned up the existing templates and added
596        several new templates</li>
597      <li>Added ability to export images and frames in the Tracer for OpenGL ES tool.</li>
598      <li>Integrated the Systrace tool into the DDMS perspective.</li>
599      <li>Improved the JUnit test runner to allow a test to be run on all connected devices
600        simultaneously.</li>
601    </ul>
602  </dd>
603
604  <dt>Bug fixes:</dt>
605  <dd>
606    <ul>
607      <li>Fixed the editors so that attributes and resources specified by XML files in the
608        {@code /values} directory are validated when files are saved.</li>
609      <li>Added a workaround for a bug in Eclipse on Mac OS X 10.8 where the Property Sheet was not
610        working properly.</li>
611    </ul>
612  </dd>
613
614</dl>
615
616</div>
617</div>
618
619<div class="toggle-content closed">
620  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
621    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
622      alt=""/>ADT 20.0.3</a> <em>(August 2012)</em>
623  </p>
624
625  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
626<dl>
627  <dt>Dependencies:</dt>
628
629  <dd>
630    <ul>
631      <li>Java 1.6 or higher is required.</li>
632      <li>Eclipse Helios (Version 3.6.2) or higher is required.</li>
633      <li>This version of ADT is designed for use with
634        <a href="{@docRoot}tools/sdk/tools-notes.html">SDK Tools r20.0.3</a>.
635        If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r20.0.3 into your SDK, use the
636        Android SDK Manager to do so.</li>
637    </ul>
638  </dd>
639
640  <dt>Bug fixes:</dt>
641  <dd>
642    <ul>
643      <li>Fixed issue with keyboard shortcuts for editors in Eclipse Juno (Version 4.x).</li>
644      <li>Fixed problem with cached download lists in SDK Manager.</li>
645    </ul>
646  </dd>
647
648</dl>
649
650</div>
651</div>
652
653
654<div class="toggle-content closed">
655  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
656    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
657      alt=""/>ADT 20.0.2</a> <em>(July 2012)</em>
658  </p>
659
660  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
661<dl>
662  <dt>Dependencies:</dt>
663
664  <dd>
665    <ul>
666      <li>Java 1.6 or higher is required.</li>
667      <li>Eclipse Helios (Version 3.6.2) or higher is required.</li>
668      <li>This version of ADT is designed for use with
669        <a href="{@docRoot}tools/sdk/tools-notes.html">SDK Tools r20.0.1</a>.
670        If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r20.0.1 into your SDK, use the
671        Android SDK Manager to do so.</li>
672    </ul>
673  </dd>
674
675  <dt>Bug fixes:</dt>
676  <dd>
677    <ul>
678      <li>Fixed keybindings in various XML editors for Eclipse 4.x.</li>
679      <li>Fixed a bug that occurs when you try to create layout configurations that already
680        exist.</li>
681    </ul>
682  </dd>
683
684</dl>
685
686</div>
687</div>
688
689
690<div class="toggle-content closed">
691  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
692    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
693      alt=""/>ADT 20.0.1</a> <em>(July 2012)</em>
694  </p>
695
696  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
697<dl>
698  <dt>Dependencies:</dt>
699
700  <dd>
701    <ul>
702      <li>Java 1.6 or higher is required.</li>
703      <li>Eclipse Helios (Version 3.6.2) or higher is required.</li>
704      <li>This version of ADT is designed for use with
705        <a href="{@docRoot}tools/sdk/tools-notes.html">SDK Tools r20.0.1</a>.
706        If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r20.0.1 into your SDK, use the
707        Android SDK Manager to do so.</li>
708    </ul>
709  </dd>
710
711  <dt>Bug fixes:</dt>
712  <dd>
713    <ul>
714      <li>Fixed issue in the New Project Wizard related to installation of the Support Library.</li>
715      <li>Fixed several issues with New Project Wizard related to templates.</li>
716      <li>Fixed issue with the text-based launcher icon in New Project Wizard.</li>
717      <li>Fixed issue with sticky error markers in Java files.</li>
718      <li>Fixed problem with manifest merger when exporting release {@code .apk} files.</li>
719      <li>Fixed NDK support to automatically find include path on Windows.</li>
720      <li>Fixed editor startup exception for new configurations where editor would come up blank.</li>
721      <li>Added support for {@code xxhdpi} density, which was included in API Level 16.</li>
722      <li>Fixed a bug in the {@code lint} check for unprotected broadcast receivers to ignore
723unprotected receivers for default Android actions.</li>
724    </ul>
725  </dd>
726
727</dl>
728
729</div>
730</div>
731
732<div class="toggle-content closed">
733  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
734    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
735      alt=""/>ADT 20.0.0</a> <em>(June 2012)</em>
736  </p>
737
738  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
739<dl>
740  <dt>Dependencies:</dt>
741
742  <dd>
743    <ul>
744      <li>Java 1.6 or higher is required.</li>
745      <li>Eclipse Helios (Version 3.6.2) or higher is required.</li>
746      <li>This version of ADT is designed for use with
747        <a href="{@docRoot}sdk/tools-notes.html">SDK Tools r20</a>.
748        If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r20 into your SDK, use the Android SDK
749        Manager to do so.</li>
750    </ul>
751  </dd>
752
753  <dt>General improvements:</dt>
754  <dd>
755    <ul>
756      <li>Application Templates
757        <ul>
758          <li>Added Android application templates to allow developers to create specific types of
759applications faster, using Android-recommended best practices.</li>
760        </ul>
761      </li>
762      <li>Performance
763        <ul>
764          <li>Improved overall ADT performance and fixed memory issues. Loading SDK data
765should be up to 30% faster.</li>
766        </ul>
767      </li>
768      <li>Tracer for GLES
769        <ul>
770          <li>Added new perspective view and tools for tracing OpenGL calls for an application and
771track the visual results of each call. (<a href="{@docRoot}tools/help/gltracer.html">more info</a>)</li>
772        </ul>
773      </li>
774      <li>Lint
775        <ul>
776          <li>Added new Lint rules for manifest registrations, duplicate activity
777registrations, security checking, correct use of Toast, missing SharedPreferences commit()
778calls, Fragment class instantiation, and handler leaks.</li>
779          <li>Created tighter integration of lint with the layout editor. (<a
780href="http://tools.android.com/recent/lintfeedback">more info</a>)</li>
781          <li>Added execution of Lint tool on save option for Java files. (<a
782href="http://tools.android.com/recent/lintonsave">more info</a>)</li>
783        </ul>
784      </li>
785      <li>Layout Editor (<a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/newlayouteditorpropertysheet">more
786info</a>)
787        <ul>
788          <li>Added highlighting (in bold) for important attributes, inline preview of colors and
789images, including the corresponding resource name.</li>
790          <li>Added display of default values, when available.</li>
791          <li>Added completion of resource values and enum and flag constants.</li>
792          <li>Added support for displaying advanced properties, and nested properties for better
793categorization, for example, layout params are listed first as a single nested property.</li>
794          <li>Display Tooltips over the attribute names, not values, so they never obscure the value
795column.</li>
796          <li>Provided checkbox support for boolean values.</li>
797          <li>Added support for switching between alphabetical and natural sort orders.</li>
798          <li>Improved layout editor tool's window management for more usable editing views.</li>
799          <li>Improved the layout editor's configuration chooser header user interface.</li>
800        </ul>
801      </li>
802      <li>XML Editing
803        <ul>
804          <li>Added go to declaration support for theme references (?android:attr, ?attr:).</li>
805          <li>Improved code completion in style definitions.</li>
806          <li>Improved code completion for the {@code minSdkVersion} and {@code targetSdkVersion}
807attributes in manifest files so that version descriptions are displayed for each of the API
808levels</li>
809          <li>Provided support for code completion of custom attributes for custom views,
810including current edits to the style files.</li>
811          <li>Improved synchronization of text and graphic editors with the XML outline view,
812including outline changes and display of current selection.</li>
813        </ul>
814      </li>
815      <li>Build System
816        <ul>
817          <li>Added automatic merging of library project manifest files into the including
818project's manifest. Enable this feature with the {@code manifestmerger.enabled} property.</li>
819          <li>Added automatic ProGuard support for the {@code aapt -G} flag. This change causes
820the build system to generate a temporary ProGuard keep-rules file containing classes that
821are referenced from XML files (such as custom views) and pass this to ProGuard at shrink-time. This
822can make the resulting APK much smaller when using just a small portion of a large library project
823(such as the Android Support library), since the catch-all rules to keep all custom views from the
824default ProGuard configuration file have also been removed.</li>
825        </ul>
826      </li>
827      <li>Added support building and debugging NDK-based Android projects.</li>
828      </li>
829      <li>Added support to the Asset Studio Wizard for padding and turning off background
830shapes.</li>
831      <li>Improved LogCat to allow developers to set colors for different priorities.</li>
832      <li>Improved app Run functionality to allow running on multiple devices with a single launch.
833The target tab in the launch configuration dialog includes an option to allow launching on all
834connected devices, with the option to further narrow the list to just physical devices or just
835emulators. (This feature is available only for Run configurations, and not for Debug or JUnit
836tests.)</li>
837    <ul>
838  </dd>
839
840  <dt>Bug fixes:</dt>
841  <dd>
842    <ul>
843      <li>Fixed a number of issues where Lint incorrectly reported code errors or failed to
844flag code issues.</li>
845      <li>Fixed several bugs in the layout editor.</li>
846      <li>Fixed compatibility issues with Eclipse 4.x (Juno), including cut/copy/paste
847functions.</li>
848    </ul>
849  </dd>
850
851</dl>
852
853</div>
854</div>
855
856<div class="toggle-content closed">
857  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
858    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
859      alt=""/>ADT 18.0.0</a> <em>(April 2012)</em>
860  </p>
861
862  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
863<dl>
864  <dt>Dependencies:</dt>
865
866  <dd>
867    <ul>
868      <li>Java 1.6 or higher is required.</li>
869      <li>Eclipse Helios (Version 3.6.2) or higher is required.</li>
870      <li>This version of ADT is designed for use with
871        <a href="{@docRoot}tools/sdk/tools-notes.html">SDK Tools r18</a>.
872        If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r18 into your SDK, use the Android SDK
873        Manager to do so.</li>
874    </ul>
875  </dd>
876
877  <dt>Bug fixes:</dt>
878  <dd>
879    <ul>
880      <li>Fixed problem where exporting release package does not recompile libraries in release
881        mode.
882        (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=27940">Issue 27940</a>)</li>
883    </ul>
884  </dd>
885
886</dl>
887
888</div>
889</div>
890
891
892<div class="toggle-content closed">
893  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
894    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
895      alt=""/>ADT 17.0.0</a> <em>(March 2012)</em>
896  </p>
897
898  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
899<dl>
900  <dt>Dependencies:</dt>
901
902  <dd>
903    <ul>
904      <li>Java 1.6 or higher is required.</li>
905      <li>Eclipse Helios (Version 3.6.2) or higher is required.</li>
906      <li>This version of ADT is designed for use with
907        <a href="{@docRoot}tools/sdk/tools-notes.html">SDK Tools r17</a>.
908        If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r17 into your SDK, use the Android SDK
909        Manager to do so.</li>
910    </ul>
911  </dd>
912
913  <dt>General improvements:</dt>
914  <dd>
915    <ul>
916      <li>New build features
917        <ul>
918          <li>Added feature to automatically setup JAR dependencies. Any {@code .jar} files in the
919          {@code /libs} folder are added to the build configuration (similar to how the Ant build
920          system works). Also, {@code .jar} files needed by library projects are also automatically
921          added to projects that depend on those library projects.
922          (<a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/dealingwithdependenciesinandroidprojects">more
923          info</a>)</li>
924          <li>Added a feature that allows you to run some code only in debug mode. Builds now
925generate a class called {@code BuildConfig} containing a {@code DEBUG} constant that is
926automatically set according to your build type. You can check the ({@code BuildConfig.DEBUG})
927constant in your code to run debug-only functions.</li>
928          <li>Added support for custom views with custom attributes in libraries. Layouts using
929custom attributes must use the namespace URI {@code http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto} instead
930of the URI that includes the app package name. This URI is replaced with the app specific one at
931build time.</li>
932        </ul>
933      </li>
934      <li>Improved Lint features. See the <a href="{@docRoot}tools/sdk/tools-notes.html">SDK Tools r17</a>
935release notes.</li>
936      <li>Improved the Lint user interface
937        <ul>
938          <li>Added <strong>Run Lint</strong> toolbar action with a dropdown menu for selecting
939specific (or all) projects, clearing results and other actions.</li>
940          <li>Updated the results window to be organized as a tree rather than a flat list. Each
941issue type has a single top level item, which makes it easier to quickly scan through the reported
942issues and narrow down to the issues you are most interested in.</li>
943          <li>Added many new toolbar actions to the results window, including expand/collapse,
944ignore in file, ignore in project, ignore everywhere, show options, and configure columns.</li>
945          <li>Added new column options for the <strong>Lint Warnings</strong> tab, such as
946category, priority, project, file and line. The column selection (as well as the column sizes) are
947persisted. You can also click on columns to sort by those values.</li>
948          <li>Added Enable All and Disable All buttons to the Lint Options dialog, and a search
949filter textbox to filter by issue id, summary and severity.</li>
950        </ul>
951      </li>
952      <li>Added Quick Outline for XML editors (Ctrl-O, Command-O). This feature shows the structure
953of the current file including icons and ids, lets you filter and quickly jump to specific ids.</li>
954      <li>Updated the resource chooser to shows the resolved value for resources. For example,
955when selecting {@code @string/hello} the chooser displays a resolved value such as "Hello World").
956The resource chooser also now allows you to edit the chosen value directly.</li>
957      <li>Updated Layout Editor so that it does not assign default ids to layouts, includes and
958merge tags. This behavior tended to pollute the namespace with a lot of unused resources since
959layouts are not usually manipulated via code, or referenced from XML. (The RelativeLayout editor
960automatically assigns ids to views without ids when pointing to them.)</li>
961      <li>Added ability to export screenshots from the Layout Editor</li>
962    </ul>
963  </dd>
964
965  <dt>Bug fixes:</dt>
966  <dd>
967    <ul>
968      <li>Fixed problem using Layout Editor with {@link android.widget.SlidingDrawer} which could
969        not be dragged into the layout on some platforms.</li>
970      <li>Fixed preview rendering for {@link android.widget.SlidingDrawer} and
971        {@link android.widget.TabHost}.
972        (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=23022">Issue 23022</a>).</li>
973      <li>Fixed issues that could prevent layout rendering due to unresolvable resources.
974        (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=21046">Issue 21046</a>,
975        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=21051">Issue 21051</a>)</li>
976      <li>Fixed a bug in resource chooser which made some types of framework resources impossible to
977select. (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=20589">Issue 20589</a>)</li>
978      <li>Fixed a bug in the formatter where a certain whitespace pattern could result in a
979        non-space character getting deleted.
980        (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=23940">Issue 23940</a>)</li>
981      <li>Fixed a locale bug affecting Turkish locales in particular.
982        (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=23747">Issue 23747</a>)</li>
983      <li>Fixed an issue where dex complains about duplicate classes in cases where a Library
984        Project depends on the same jar files or Java-only projects.</li>
985      <li>Fixed an issue where test projects had to independently reference the library projects
986        used by an app project. Now referencing only the app project is enough.</li>
987    </ul>
988  </dd>
989
990</dl>
991
992</div>
993</div>
994
995<div class="toggle-content closed">
996  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
997    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
998      alt=""/>ADT 16.0.1</a> <em>(December 2011)</em>
999  </p>
1000
1001  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
1002<dl>
1003  <dt>Dependencies:</dt>
1004
1005  <dd>
1006    <ul>
1007      <li>Eclipse Helios (Version 3.6) or higher is required.</li>
1008      <li>This version of ADT is designed for use with
1009        <a href="{@docRoot}tools/sdk/tools-notes.html">SDK Tools r16</a>.
1010        If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r16 into your SDK, use the Android SDK
1011        Manager to do so.</li>
1012    </ul>
1013  </dd>
1014
1015  <dt>Bug fixes:</dt>
1016  <dd>
1017    <ul>
1018      <li>Fixed build issue where the 9-patch could be packaged as normal bitmap in some cases.</li>
1019      <li>Fixed minor issues in the <a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/lint">Lint</a>
1020        tool.</li>
1021      <li>Fixed minor issues in the SDK Manager.</li>
1022    </ul>
1023  </dd>
1024</dl>
1025
1026</div>
1027</div>
1028
1029
1030<div class="toggle-content closed">
1031  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
1032    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
1033      alt=""/>ADT 16.0.0</a> <em>(December 2011)</em>
1034  </p>
1035
1036  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
1037<dl>
1038  <dt>Dependencies:</dt>
1039
1040  <dd>
1041    <ul>
1042      <li>Eclipse Helios (Version 3.6) or higher is required for ADT 16.0.0.</li>
1043      <li>This version of ADT is designed for use with
1044        <a href="{@docRoot}tools/sdk/tools-notes.html">SDK Tools r16</a>.
1045        If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r16 into your SDK, use
1046        the Android SDK Manager to do so.</li>
1047    </ul>
1048  </dd>
1049
1050  <dt>General improvements:</dt>
1051  <dd>
1052    <ul>
1053      <li>Added Lint tool to detect common errors in Android projects. (<a
1054href="http://tools.android.com/recent/lint">more info</a>)</li>
1055    </ul>
1056  </dd>
1057</dl>
1058
1059</div>
1060</div>
1061
1062
1063<div class="toggle-content closed">
1064  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
1065    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
1066      alt=""/>ADT 15.0.1</a> <em>(November 2011)</em>
1067  </p>
1068
1069  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
1070<dl>
1071  <dt>Dependencies:</dt>
1072
1073  <dd>This version of ADT is designed for use with
1074    <a href="{@docRoot}tools/sdk/tools-notes.html">SDK Tools r15</a>.
1075    If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r15 into your SDK, use the Android SDK Manager to
1076    do so.</dd>
1077
1078  <dt>Bug fixes:</dt>
1079  <dd>
1080    <ul>
1081      <li>Fixed how source files are attached to library project <code>.jar</code> files.</li>
1082      <li>Fixed how the <code>bin/</code> folder for library projects are refreshed. This ensures that parent projects pick up changes in library projects.</li>
1083      <li>Fixed how a parent project's library container is updated when a library project is recompiled. This ensures that parent projects are
1084      recompiled when code in a library project changes.</li>
1085      <li>Fixed how <code>res/</code> folders are checked in library projects. This ensures that all <code>res</code> folders are properly included
1086      even if Eclipse is not aware of them due to refresh issues.</li>
1087      <li>Fixed issue that prevented <code>aapt</code> from running when editing certain XML files.</li>
1088      <li>Fixed minor XML formatting issues.</li>
1089    </ul>
1090  </dd>
1091</dl>
1092
1093</div>
1094</div>
1095
1096
1097
1098<div class="toggle-content closed">
1099  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
1100    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
1101      alt=""/>ADT 15.0.0</a> <em>(October 2011)</em>
1102  </p>
1103
1104  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
1105<dl>
1106
1107<dt>Dependencies:</dt>
1108
1109<dd>This version of ADT is designed for use with
1110  <a href="{@docRoot}tools/sdk/tools-notes.html">SDK Tools r15</a>.
1111  If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r15 into your SDK, use the Android SDK Manager to
1112  do so.</dd>
1113
1114<dt>Bug fixes:</dt>
1115<dd>
1116<ul>
1117  <li>Fixed build issue when using RenderScript in projects that target API levels 11-13
1118    (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=21006">Issue 21006</a>).</li>
1119  <li>Fixed issue when creating projects from existing source code.</li>
1120  <li>Fixed issues in the SDK Manager
1121    (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=20939">Issue 20939</a>,
1122    <a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=20607">Issue 20607</a>).</li>
1123  <li>Fixed a scrolling issue in the new Logcat panel of DDMS.</li>
1124</ul>
1125</dd>
1126</dl>
1127
1128</div>
1129</div>
1130
1131<div class="toggle-content closed">
1132  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
1133    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
1134      alt=""/>ADT 14.0.0</a> <em>(October 2011)</em>
1135  </p>
1136
1137  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
1138<dl>
1139
1140<dt>Dependencies:</dt>
1141
1142<dd>This version of ADT is designed for use with
1143  <a href="{@docRoot}tools/sdk/tools-notes.html">SDK Tools r14</a>.
1144  If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r14 into your SDK, use the Android SDK Manager to
1145  do so.</dd>
1146
1147<dt>Build system:</dt>
1148<dd>
1149  <ul>
1150    <li>Changed <code>default.properties</code> to <code>project.properties</code> and
1151    <code>build.properties</code> to <code>ant.properties</code>. ADT automatically
1152    renames these files, if necessary, when you open a project in Eclipse.</li>
1153    <li>Changed how library projects are built in Eclipse.</a></li>
1154    <li>Changed output of <code>javac</code> from <code>bin/</code> to <code>bin/classes</code>
1155    in Eclipse.</li>
1156    <li>Improved incremental builds so that resource compilation runs less frequently. Builds no
1157    longer run when you edit strings or layouts (unless you add a new <code>id</code>) and no longer
1158    run once for each library project.</li>
1159    <li>Introduced a "PNG crunch cache" that only runs on modified PNG files, instead of
1160    crunching all existing PNG files, all the time.</li>
1161    <li>Modified resource compilation so it no longer happens for normal save operations. It only
1162    happens when running or debugging (the build option that lets you disable the packaging
1163    step, which was introduced in ADT 12, is now on by default.)</li>
1164  </ul>
1165<p>For a complete overview of the build system changes and what you need to do to support them,
1166see the <a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/buildchangesinrevision14">Android Tools Project
1167site</a>.</p>
1168</dd>
1169
1170<dt>General improvements:</dt>
1171<dd>
1172  <ul>
1173
1174
1175<li>Added a Welcome Wizard to help with the initial setup of the Android
1176development environment (<a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/welcomewizard">more
1177info</a>).</li>
1178<li>Integrated the Android Asset Studio, which helps you create icons for things
1179like the launcher, menus, and tabs. (<a
1180href="http://tools.android.com/recent/assetstudiointegration">more
1181info</a>).</li>
1182<li>Revamped the Logcat view and added support to display and filter logs by
1183   application names as well as PIDs (<a
1184   href="http://tools.android.com/recent/updatedlogcatviewer">more info</a>).</li>
1185<li>Revamped the SDK Manager UI (<a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/newsdkmanager">more
1186info</a>).</li>
1187<li>Revamped the New Project and the New XML File wizards to have
1188multiple pages. Sample projects are now copied into the workspace such that they can be modified
1189and deleted without affecting the master copy
1190(<a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/revampedwizards">more info</a>).</li>
1191<li>Removed the dependency on Eclipse GEF.</li>
1192</ul>
1193</dd>
1194
1195<dt>XML and Java editors:</dt>
1196<dd>
1197  <ul>
1198    <li>Added a new XML formatter that formats all XML files according to the
1199   standard Android coding style. The formatter can also reorder
1200   attributes to follow a recommended order and processes any changes made in the Layout editor.
1201(<a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/xmlformatter">more info</a>).</li>
1202  <li>Added the "Go to Matching" (Ctrl-Shift-P) feature, which lets you jump
1203between opening and closing tags in XML files.</li>
1204  <li>Added support for the "Select Enclosing Element" feature on Mac.</li>
1205  <li>Added a Quickfix for extracting Strings when the caret is inside a String (<a href="">see
1206more</a>).</li>
1207  <li>Improved "smart indent", which allows automatic indentation and un-indentation
1208   when pressing the Return key in XML editors (<a
1209href="http://tools.android.com/recent/xmleditingimprovements">more info</a>).</li>
1210
1211  </ul>
1212</dd>
1213
1214<dt>Layout editor:</dt>
1215<dd>
1216  <ul>
1217    <li>Added tooltip feedback for dragging and resizing operations. For
1218    example, when dragging in a relative layout, the proposed
1219    constraints are shown. When resizing, the new dimensions are
1220    shown (<a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/layouteditorfeedbacktooltips">more
1221info</a>).</li>
1222    <li>Added the ability to suppress rendering fidelity warnings (<a
1223href="http://tools.android.com/recent/suppressrenderwarnings">more info</a>).</li>
1224    <li>Added "Remove Container" visual refactoring that removes the
1225    children of a container up to the top level and transfers
1226    namespace and layout attributes if necessary (<a
1227href="http://tools.android.com/recent/removecontainervisualrefactoring">more info</a>).</li>
1228    <li>Added pull-right menus to the context menu for accessing
1229    properties of the parents, which is useful when the children fully
1230    cover the parent and make it hard to select on their own.</li>
1231     <li>Improved access to properties in the context menu. The most
1232    frequently set attributes for each view are listed at the top of
1233    the menu. The Properties menu offers access to the most
1234    recently set attributes, attributes organized by their defining
1235    view, and layout attributes only or all attributes alphabetically (<a
1236href="http://tools.android.com/recent/layouteditorcontextmenuimprovements">more info</a>).</li>
1237  </ul>
1238</dd>
1239
1240<dt>Bug fixes:</dt>
1241<dd>Fixed many bugs and added <a
1242href="http://tools.android.com/recent/miscellaneousrecentfixes">minor improvements</a>, in
1243particular some <a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/linuxfixes">critical bug fixes on
1244Linux</a>.</dd>
1245
1246</div>
1247</div>
1248
1249
1250
1251<div class="toggle-content closed">
1252  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
1253    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
1254      alt=""/>ADT 12.0.0</a> <em>(July 2011)</em>
1255  </p>
1256
1257  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
1258<dl>
1259
1260<dt>Dependencies:</dt>
1261
1262<dd>This version of ADT is designed for use with
1263<a href="{@docRoot}tools/sdk/tools-notes.html">SDK Tools r12</a>. If you haven't
1264already installed SDK Tools r12 into your SDK, use
1265the Android SDK Manager to do so.</dd>
1266
1267<dt>Visual Layout Editor:</dt>
1268<dd>
1269<ul>
1270  <li>New RelativeLayout drop support with guideline suggestions for
1271   attachments and cycle prevention
1272   (<a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/revampedrelativelayoutsupport">more info</a>).</li>
1273  <li>Resize support in most layouts along with
1274  guideline snapping to the sizes dictated by <code>wrap_content</code> and <code>match_parent</code>.
1275  In LinearLayout, sizes are mapped to weights instead of pixel widths.
1276  (<a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/resizesupport">more info</a>).</li>
1277  <li>Previews of drawables and colors in the resource chooser dialogs
1278  (<a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/imageandcolorpreviews">more info</a>).</li>
1279  <li>Improved error messages and links for rendering errors including
1280  detection of misspelled class names
1281  (<a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/improvedrenderingerrordiagnostics">more info</a>).</li>
1282</ul>
1283</dd>
1284
1285<dt>Build system:</dt>
1286<dd>
1287<ul>
1288  <li id="build-option">A new option lets you disable the packaging step in the automatic
1289  builders. This improves performance when saving files by not
1290  performing a full build, which can take a long time for large projects.
1291  If the option is enabled, the APK is packaged when the
1292  application is deployed to a device or emulator or when the
1293  release APK is exported (<a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/finercontroloveradtbuildprocess">more info</a>).</li>
1294</ul>
1295</dd>
1296
1297<dt>Bug fixes:</dt>
1298<dd>Many bug fixes are part of this release
1299(<a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/adt12bugfixroundup">more info</a>).</dd>
1300
1301</div>
1302</div>
1303
1304
1305<div class="toggle-content closed">
1306  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
1307    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
1308      alt=""/>ADT 11.0.0</a> <em>(June 2011)</em>
1309  </p>
1310
1311  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
1312<dl>
1313
1314<dt>Dependencies:</dt>
1315
1316<dd>This version of ADT is designed for use with SDK Tools r11. If you haven't
1317already installed SDK Tools r11 into your SDK, use the Android SDK Manager to do
1318so.</dd>
1319
1320<dt>Visual Refactoring:</dt>
1321<dd>
1322  <ul>
1323    <li>"Extract Style" feature pulls out style-related attributes from your layout and extracts
1324them as a new style defined in {@code styles.xml} (<a
1325href="http://tools.android.com/recent/extractstylerefactoring">more info</a>).</li>
1326    <li>"Wrap in Container" feature lets you select a group of views then surround them
1327    in a new layout (a new view group, such as a LinearLayout), and transfers namespace and layout
1328    parameters to the new parent (<a
1329href="http://tools.android.com/recent/newrefactoringswrapinchangelayoutchangewidget">more
1330info</a>).</li>
1331    <li>"Change Layout" feature changes layouts from one type
1332    to another, and can also flatten a layout hierarchy (<a
1333href="http://tools.android.com/recent/newrefactoringswrapinchangelayoutchangewidget">more
1334info</a>).</li>
1335    <li>"Change Widget Type" feature changes the type of the
1336    selected views to a new type. Also, a new selection context menu
1337    in the visual layout editor makes it easy to select siblings as
1338    well as views anywhere in the layout that have the same type (<a
1339href="http://tools.android.com/recent/newrefactoringswrapinchangelayoutchangewidget">more
1340info</a>).</li>
1341    <li>"Extract as Include" feature finds identical collections of views
1342    in other layouts and offers to combine them into a single layout that you can then include in
1343 each layout (<a
1344href="http://tools.android.com/recent/extractasincludeimprovements">more info</a>).</li>
1345    <li>Quick Assistant in Eclipse can be invoked
1346    from the XML editor (with Ctrl-1) to apply any of the above
1347    refactorings (and Extract String) to the current selection (<a
1348href="http://tools.android.com/recent/refactoringquickassistant">more info</a>).</li>
1349  </ul>
1350</dd>
1351
1352<dt>Visual Layout Editor:</dt>
1353<dd>
1354  <ul>
1355    <li>This is the update to the layout editor you've been waiting for! It includes (almost) all
1356the goodies demonstrated at Google I/O. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq05KqjXTvs">Watch
1357the video</a> on YouTube.</li>
1358    <li>The palette now supports different configurations for supported widgets. That is, a single
1359view is presented in various different configurations that you can drag into your layout. For
1360example, there is a <em>Text Fields</em> palette category where you can drag an {@link
1361android.widget.EditText} widget in as a password field, an e-mail field, a phone field, or other
1362types of text boxes. Similarly, {@link android.widget.TextView} widgets are preconfigured
1363with large, normal and small theme sizes, and {@link android.widget.LinearLayout} elements are
1364preconfigured in horizontal and vertical configurations (<a
1365href="http://tools.android.com/recent/multipletextfieldandlayouttypes">more info</a>).</li>
1366    <li>The palette supports custom views. You can pick up any custom
1367    implementations of the View class you've created in your project or from included libraries and
1368drag them into your layout (<a
1369href="http://tools.android.com/recent/customviewsinthepalette">more info</a>).</li>
1370    <li>Fragments are available in the palette for placement in your layout. In the tool, you can
1371choose which layout to show rendered for a given fragment tag. Go to declaration works for fragment
1372classes (<a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/fragmentsupport">more info</a>).</li>
1373    <li>The layout editor automatically applies a "zoom to fit" for newly
1374    opened files as well as on device size and orientation changes to
1375    ensure that large layouts are always fully visible unless you
1376    manually zoom in.</li>
1377    <li>You can drop in an {@code &lt;include&gt;} element from the palette, which will pop up
1378    a layout chooser. When you select the layout to include, it is added with an {@code
1379&lt;include&gt;}. Similarly, dropping images or image buttons will pop up image
1380    resource choosers (<a
1381href="http://tools.android.com/recent/includetagdropsupport">more info</a>).</li>
1382    <li>The configuration chooser now applies the "Render Target" and
1383    "Locale" settings project wide, making it trivial to check the
1384    layouts for different languages or render targets without having
1385    to configure these individually for each layout.</li>
1386    <li>The layout editor is smarter about picking a default theme to
1387    render a layout with, consulting factors like theme registrations
1388    in the manifest, the SDK version, and other factors.</li>
1389    <li>The layout editor is smarter about picking a default configuration to render a layout
1390with, defaulting to the currently visible configuration in the previous file. It also considers the
1391SDK target to determine whether to default to a tablet or phone screen size.</li>
1392    <li>Basic focus support. The first text field dropped in a layout is assigned focus, and there
1393are <strong>Request Focus</strong> and <strong>Clear Focus</strong> context menu items on text
1394fields to change the focus.</li>
1395  </ul>
1396</dd>
1397
1398<dt>XML editors:</dt>
1399<dd>
1400<ul>
1401  <li>Code completion has been significantly improved. It now works
1402  with {@code &lt;style&gt;} elements, completes dimensional units,
1403  sorts resource paths in values based on the attribute name, and more. There are also many fixes to
1404handle text replacement (<a
1405href="http://tools.android.com/recent/xmlcodecompletionimprovements">more info</a>).</li>
1406  <li>AAPT errors are handled better. They are now underlined for the
1407  relevant range in the editor, and a new quickfix makes it trivial
1408  to create missing resources.</li>
1409  <li>Code completion for drawable, animation and color XML files (<a
1410href="http://tools.android.com/recent/codecompletionfordrawablescolorsandanimationfiles">more
1411info</a>).</li>
1412</ul>
1413</dd>
1414
1415<dt>DDMS:</dt>
1416<dd>
1417<ul>
1418  <li>"New Folder" action in the File Explorer.</li>
1419  <li>The screenshot dialog will add timestamps to the filenames and preserve the orientation on
1420snapshot refresh.</li>
1421</ul>
1422</dd>
1423
1424<dt>General notes:</dt>
1425<dd>
1426  <ul>
1427    <li>TraceView supports zooming with the mouse-wheel in the timeline.</li>
1428    <li>The New Android Project wizard now supports Eclipse working sets.</li>
1429  </ul>
1430</dd>
1431</dl>
1432<p>More information about tool changes are available on the <a
1433href="http://tools.android.com/recent">Android Tools Project Site</a>.</p>
1434</div>
1435</div>
1436
1437
1438
1439
1440
1441<div class="toggle-content closed">
1442  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
1443    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
1444      alt=""/>ADT 10.0.1</a> <em>(March 2011)</em>
1445  </p>
1446
1447  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
1448
1449<dl>
1450
1451<dt>Dependencies:</dt>
1452
1453<dd>This version of ADT is designed for use with SDK Tools r10. If you haven't
1454already installed SDK Tools r10 into your SDK, use the Android SDK Manager to do
1455so.</dd>
1456
1457<dt>General notes:</dt>
1458<dd>
1459  <ul>
1460    <li>Temporary work-around to resolve the rare cases in which the layout editor will
1461not open.</li>
1462    <li>Fixed an issue in which ADT 10.0.0 would install on Eclipse 3.4 and lower, even though ADT
1463requires Eclipse 3.5 or higher (as of 10.0.0).</li>
1464  </ul>
1465</dd>
1466</dl>
1467</div>
1468</div>
1469
1470
1471
1472<div class="toggle-content closed">
1473  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
1474    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
1475      alt=""/>ADT 10.0.0</a> <em>(February 2011)</em>
1476  </p>
1477
1478  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
1479<dl>
1480
1481<dt>Dependencies:</dt>
1482
1483<dd>This version of ADT is designed for use with SDK Tools r10. If you haven't
1484already installed SDK Tools r10 into your SDK, use the Android SDK Manager to do
1485so.</dd>
1486
1487<dt>General notes:</dt>
1488<dd>
1489  <ul>
1490  <li>The tools now automatically generate Java Programming Language source files (in the <code>gen/</code> directory) and
1491    bytecode (in the <code>res/raw/</code> directory) from your <code>.rs</code> files.</li>
1492  <li>A Binary XML editor has been added (<a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/binaryxmleditor">details</a>).</li>
1493  <li>Traceview is now integrated into the Eclipse UI (<a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/traceviewineclipse">details</a>).</li>
1494  <li>The "Go To Declaration" feature for XML and <code>.java</code> files quickly show all the matches in the project
1495  and allows you jump to specific items such as string translations or <code>onClick</code> handlers
1496  (<a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/gotodeclarationimprovements">details</a>).</li>
1497  <li>The Resource Chooser can create items such as dimensions, integers, ids, and booleans
1498  (<a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/resourcechoosercannowcreatearbitraryvalues">details</a>).</li>
1499  <li>Improvements to the Visual Layout Editor:
1500      <ul>
1501        <li>A new Palette with categories and rendering previews
1502        (<a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/newpalette">details</a>).</li>
1503        <li>A Layout Actions bar that provides quick access to common layout operations
1504        (<a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/layoutactionsbar">details</a>).</li>
1505        <li>When the Android 3.0 rendering library is selected, layouts render more like they do on devices.
1506        This includes rendering of status and title bars to more accurately reflect the actual
1507        screen space available to applications
1508        (<a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/systembarandactionbar">details</a>).</li>
1509        <li>Zoom improvements such as fit to view, persistent scale, and keyboard access.
1510        (<a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/zoomimprovements">details</a>).</li>
1511        <li>Further improvements to <code>&lt;merge&gt;</code> layouts, as well as layouts with gesture overlays
1512        (<a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/improvedsupportformergetags">details</a>).</li>
1513        <li>Improved rendering error diagnostics.</li>
1514      </ul>
1515    </li>
1516  </ul>
1517</dd>
1518</dl>
1519</div>
1520</div>
1521
1522<div class="toggle-content closed">
1523  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
1524    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
1525      alt=""/>ADT 9.0.0</a> <em>(January 2011)</em>
1526  </p>
1527
1528  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
1529<dl>
1530
1531<dt>Dependencies:</dt>
1532
1533<dd>This version of ADT is designed for use with SDK Tools r9. If you haven't
1534already installed SDK Tools r9 into your SDK, use the Android SDK Manager to do
1535so.</dd>
1536
1537<dt>General notes:</dt>
1538<dd>
1539  <ul>
1540    <li>"Go To Declaration" hyperlink support: You can jump directly from code references (such as
1541    <code>R.id.main</code>) to the corresponding XML declaration, or from XML attributes (such as
1542    <code>@string</code>) to the corresponding resource definition, or from manifest XML
1543    registrations to activities and services.</li>
1544    <li>Improvements were made to name refactoring.</li>
1545    <li>AVDs now automatically save their state, so they can restart almost instantly. You can enable this feature when
1546    creating an AVD or by editing an AVD with the AVD Manager.</li>
1547    <li>Improvements to the Visual Layout Editor:
1548      <ul>
1549        <li>Support for rendering targets: You can now choose an arbitrary Android platform to
1550        render the current page, regardless of the project's minimum platform. This makes it
1551        easy to verify the layout and appearance of your activity on different versions of
1552        the platform.
1553        </li>
1554        <li>Improved support for empty and nested layouts: Dragging items over nested and
1555        invisible layouts automatically enlarges and highlights these layouts, so that they
1556        can receive drops.
1557        </li>
1558        <li>XML formatting improvements: The editor generates cleaner XML and you can now enable
1559        XML auto-formatting in the <strong>Preferences</strong> menu.</li>
1560        <li>Improved Outline labels: The Outline tab now displays additional information about each
1561        View. Textual Views display a snippet of the actual text. Views with a source
1562        (such as ImageView) displays the resource name. Included Views display the name of the View.
1563        </li>
1564        <li>When you right click a View in the Layout Editor,
1565        the context menu now contains <strong>Edit ID...</strong> and <strong>Edit Text...</strong>
1566        items. The <strong>Properties...</strong> context menus now list all of the properties and
1567        provide a way to edit them
1568        (<a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/editidtextandotherpropertiesviamenu">Details</a>).
1569        </li>
1570        <li>The layout editor now properly handles
1571        <a href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/resources/layout-resource.html#include-element"><code>&lt;include&gt;</code></a>
1572        and <a href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/resources/layout-resource.html#merge-element"><code>&lt;merge&gt;</code></a>
1573        tags (<a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/supportforincludeandmerge">Details</a>).</li>
1574        <li>"Extract as Include" refactoring: The Layout Editor has a new refactoring that allows
1575        you to select one or more views in a layout, and extract it into a separate layout
1576        (<a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/extractasincluderefactoring">Details</a>).</li>
1577        <li>Improved diagnostics for class loading and rendering errors: Class loading and rendering
1578        error messages are more useful and provide better information about the root cause of the
1579        error.</li>
1580        <li>Improved error handling to prevent drag and reordering operations from adding children
1581        into an {@link android.widget.AdapterView}.</li>
1582        <li>Outline reordering: Reordering your views in the Outline tab is much easier
1583        (<a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/outlineimprovements">Details</a>).</li>
1584        <li>Fix for keybinding bug where keyboard shortcuts did not work (Issues
1585        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=13231">13231</a> and
1586        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=13134">13134</a>).</li>
1587        <li>Fix for problems with Custom layout attribute menu (Issue
1588        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=13134">13134</a>).</li>
1589        <li>Automatic configuration for various view types: Certain views have properties configured
1590        by default. For example, the width of an {@link android.widget.EditText} object is set to
1591        <code>match_parent</code> when added to a vertical {@link android.widget.LinearLayout}
1592        or a default image is added to an {@link android.widget.ImageButton}.</li>
1593        <li>Previews during dragging: Dragging from the palette or dragging within the layout editor
1594        now shows live previews of the dragged item.</li>
1595        <li>Navigation improvements: In the Layout Editor, double-clicking Views jumps to the
1596        corresponding XML element. In the Outline view, double-clicking opens the Properties view.</li>
1597        <li>The editor has Honeycomb style animation preview support.</li>
1598        <li>Improved rendering support for various Views (such as TabHosts and SlidingDrawers) in
1599        Honeycomb (Issues <a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3162">3162</a>
1600        and <a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=13092">13092</a>).</li>
1601        <li>Included layouts can be rendered and edited in the context of the layouts that include
1602        them. From a layout using an <a href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/resources/layout-resource.html#include-element">
1603        <code>&lt;include&gt;</code></a> tag, double-clicking on the
1604        <a href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/resources/layout-resource.html#include-element">
1605        <code>&lt;include&gt;</code></a> element edits the referenced layout in the context of the
1606        current layout. Additionally, when editing a layout that is included by other layouts,
1607        you can quickly change between context layouts, by right clicking in the editor and choosing
1608        <strong>Show included in...</strong>. This feature is only available in Honeycomb.</li>
1609      </ul>
1610    </li>
1611    <li>This release fixes many other bugs, but the most important ones are listed below:
1612  <ul>
1613   <li>Fixed issue that prevented launching debug builds on productions devices when
1614    <code>debuggable=true</code> was not set in the Android manifest.</li>
1615    <li>The LogCat view in DDMS properly handles UTF-8 characters.</li>
1616    <li>The SDK Manager is more reliable on Windows
1617    (<a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/sdkmanagerfixes">Details</a>).</li>
1618    <li>A JUnit initialization bug that prevented you from working with JUnit tests was fixed
1619    (Issue <a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=12411">12411</a>).</li>
1620  </ul>
1621</li>
1622  </ul>
1623</dd>
1624</dl>
1625</div>
1626</div>
1627
1628
1629
1630
1631<div class="toggle-content closed">
1632  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
1633    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
1634      alt=""/>ADT 8.0.1</a> <em>(December 2010)</em>
1635  </p>
1636
1637  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
1638<dl>
1639
1640<dt>Dependencies:</dt>
1641
1642<p>This version of ADT is designed for use with SDK Tools r8. If you haven't
1643already installed SDK Tools r8 into your SDK, use the Android SDK Manager to do
1644so.</p></dd>
1645
1646<dt>General notes:</dt>
1647<dd>
1648<ul>
1649  <li>This is a quick follow-up to ADT 8.0.0 to fix some bugs.</li>
1650  <li>Fixes an issue in which projects failed to compile, citing a dex error.</li>
1651  <li>Better ProGuard error reporting when exporting applications for release.</li>
1652</ul>
1653<p>Also see the recent release notes for 8.0.0, below.</p>
1654</dd>
1655</dl>
1656</div>
1657</div>
1658
1659
1660<div class="toggle-content closed">
1661  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
1662    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
1663      alt=""/>ADT 8.0.0</a> <em>(December 2010)</em>
1664  </p>
1665
1666  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
1667<dl>
1668
1669<dt>Dependencies:</dt>
1670
1671<p>This version of ADT is designed for use with SDK Tools r8. If you haven't
1672already installed SDK Tools r8 into your SDK, use the Android SDK Manager to do
1673so.</p></dd>
1674
1675<dt>General notes:</dt>
1676<dd>
1677<ul>
1678  <li>New version number scheme that follows the SDK Tools revision number. The major version
1679number for your ADT plugin should now always match the revision number of your SDK Tools. For
1680example, ADT 8.x is for SDK Tools r8.</li>
1681  <li>Support for true debug build. You no longer need to change the value of the
1682   <code>debuggable</code> attribute in the Android Manifest.
1683  <p>Incremental builds automatically insert <code>debuggable="true"</code>, but if you perform
1684  "export signed/unsigned application package", ADT does <em>not</em> insert it.
1685  If you manually set <code>debuggable="true"</code> in the manifest file, then release builds will
1686  actually create a debug build (it does not remove it if you placed it there).</p></li>
1687  <li>Automatic <a href="{@docRoot}tools/help/proguard.html">ProGuard</a> support in
1688  release builds. For it to work, you need to have a <code>proguard.config</code>
1689  property in the <code>default.properties</code> file that points to a ProGuard config file.</li>
1690  <li>Completely rewritten Visual Layout Editor. (This is still a work in progress.) Now includes:
1691    <ul>
1692      <li>Full drag and drop from palette to layout for all Layout classes.</li>
1693      <li>Move widgets inside a Layout view, from one Layout view to another and from one layout file to another.</li>
1694      <li>Contextual menu with enum/flag type properties.</li>
1695      <li>New zoom controls.</li>
1696    </ul></li>
1697  <li>New HierarchyViewer plugin for Eclipse.</li>
1698  <li>Android launch configurations no longer recompile the whole workspace on launch.</li>
1699  <li>The location of <code>android.jar</code> source and javadoc can now be configured.</li>
1700</ul>
1701</dd>
1702</dl>
1703 </div>
1704</div>
1705
1706
1707<div class="toggle-content closed">
1708  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
1709    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
1710      alt=""/>ADT 0.9.9</a> <em>(September 2010)</em>
1711  </p>
1712
1713  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
1714<dl>
1715
1716<dt>Dependencies:</dt>
1717
1718<dd><p>ADT 0.9.9 replaces ADT 0.9.8 and is designed for use with SDK Tools r7
1719and later. ADT 0.9.9 includes the ADT 0.9.8 features as well as an important
1720bugfix, so we recommend that you upgrade as soon as possible. If you haven't
1721already installed SDK Tools r7 into your SDK, use the Android SDK Manager to do
1722so.</p></dd>
1723
1724<dt>General notes:</dt>
1725<dd>
1726<ul>
1727<li>Fixes a problem in project import, in which source files were deleted in some cases.</li>
1728<li>Includes all other ADT 0.9.8 features (see below).</li>
1729</ul>
1730</dd>
1731</dl>
1732 </div>
1733</div>
1734
1735<div class="toggle-content closed">
1736  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
1737    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
1738      alt=""/>ADT 0.9.8</a> <em>(September 2010)</em>
1739  </p>
1740
1741  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
1742</ul>
1743</dd>
1744
1745<dl>
1746
1747<dt>Dependencies:</dt>
1748
1749<dd><p>ADT 0.9.8 is now deprecated. Please use ADT 0.9.9 instead.</p></dd>
1750
1751<dt>General notes:</dt>
1752<dd>
1753<ul>
1754<li>Adds a new Action, "Rename Application Package", to the Android Tools
1755contextual menu. The Action does a full application package refactoring.
1756<li>Adds support for library projects that don't have a source folder
1757called <code>src/</code>. There is now support for any number of source folders,
1758with no name restriction. They can even be in subfolder such as
1759<code>src/java</code>. If you are already working with library projects created
1760in ADT 0.9.7, see <a
1761href="{@docRoot}tools/projects/index.html#libraryMigrating">Migrating
1762library projects to ADT 0.9.8</a> for important information about moving
1763to the new ADT environment.</li>
1764<li>Adds support for library projects that depend on other library
1765projects.</li>
1766<li>Adds support for additional resource qualifiers:
1767<code>car</code>/<code>desk</code>, <code>night</code>/<code>notnight</code> and
1768<code>navexposed</code>/<code>navhidden</code>.</li>
1769<li>Adds more device screen types in the layout editor. All screen
1770resolution/density combinations listed in the <a
1771href="{@docRoot}guide/practices/screens_support.html#range">Supporting
1772Multiple Screens</a> are now available.</li>
1773<li>Fixes problems with handling of library project names that
1774contain characters that are incompatible with the Eclipse path variable.
1775Now it properly sets up the link between the main project and the library
1776project.</li>
1777</ul>
1778</dd>
1779</dl>
1780 </div>
1781</div>
1782
1783
1784<div class="toggle-content closed">
1785  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
1786    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
1787      alt=""/>ADT 0.9.7</a> <em>(May 2010)</em>
1788  </p>
1789
1790  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
1791<dl>
1792<dt>Library projects:</dt>
1793<dd>
1794<p>The ADT Plugin now supports the use of <em>library projects</em> during
1795development, a capability that lets you store shared Android application
1796code and resources in a separate development project. You can then reference the
1797library project from other Android projects and, at build time, the tools
1798compile the shared code and resources as part of the dependent applications.
1799More information about this feature is available in the <a
1800href="{@docRoot}tools/projects/index.html#LibraryProjects">Creating and Managing Projects</a> document. </p>
1801<p>If you are not developing in Eclipse, <a
1802href="tools-notes.html">SDK Tools r6</a> provides the equivalent library
1803project support through the Ant build system.</p>
1804</dd>
1805</dl>
1806 </div>
1807</div>
1808
1809
1810<div class="toggle-content closed">
1811  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
1812    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
1813      alt=""/>ADT 0.9.6</a> <em>(March 2010)</em>
1814  </p>
1815
1816  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
1817<dl>
1818<dt>Dependencies:</dt>
1819
1820<dd><p>This version of ADT is designed for use with SDK Tools r5 and later. Before
1821updating to ADT 0.9.6, we highly recommend that you use the Android SDK Manager to install SDK
1822Tools r5 into your SDK.</p></dd>
1823
1824<dt>General Notes:</dt>
1825<dd>
1826<ul>
1827<li>Editing <code>default.properties</code> outside of Eclipse will now
1828automatically update the project.</li>
1829<li>Loads the SDK content only when a project requires it. This will make
1830Eclipse use less resources when the SDK contains many versions of Android.</li>
1831<li>Resolves potential deadlock between modal dialogs, when launching ADT the
1832first time with the SDK Usage panel.</li>
1833<li>Fixes issues with the New Project Wizard when selecting samples.</li>
1834</ul>
1835</dd>
1836<dt>AVD/SDK Manager:</dt>
1837<dd>
1838<ul>
1839<li>Adds support for platform samples packages.</li>
1840<li>Improves support for dependency between packages.</li>
1841<li>AVDs now sorted by API level.</li>
1842<li>The AVD creation dialog now enforces a minimum SD card size of 9MB.</li>
1843<li>Prevents deletion of running AVDs.</li>
1844</ul>
1845</dd>
1846<dt>DDMS:</dt>
1847<dd>
1848<ul>
1849<li>DDMS plug-in now contains the Allocation Tracker view.</li>
1850<li>New action in the Logcat view: "Go to problem" lets you go directly from an
1851exception trace output to the code.</li>
1852</ul>
1853</dd>
1854<dt>Editors:</dt>
1855<dd>
1856<ul>
1857<li>Explode mode in the Visual Layout Editor adds a margin to all layout objects
1858so that it's easier to see embedded or empty layouts.</li>
1859<li>Outline mode in the Visual Layout Editor draws layout outline to make it
1860easier to see layout objects.</li>
1861<li>Several fixes in the configuration selector of the Visual Layout
1862Editor.</li>
1863</ul>
1864</dd>
1865<dt>Application launching:</dt>
1866<dd>
1867<ul>
1868<li>Applications launched from ADT now behave as if they were clicked from the
1869Home screen.</li>
1870<li>Fixes an issue where add-ons without an optional library would not show up as valid
1871targets for application launches.</li>
1872<li>Resolves a possible crash when launching applications.</li>
1873</ul>
1874</dd>
1875</dl>
1876 </div>
1877</div>
1878
1879<div class="toggle-content closed">
1880  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
1881    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
1882      alt=""/>ADT 0.9.5</a> <em>(December 2009)</em>
1883  </p>
1884
1885  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
1886<dl>
1887<dt>Dependencies:</dt>
1888
1889<dd><p>This version of ADT requires features provided in SDK Tools r4 or higher. If you install
1890ADT 0.9.5, which is highly recommended, you should use the Android SDK
1891Manager to download the latest SDK Tools into your SDK. For more information,
1892see <a href="{@docRoot}sdk/exploring.html">Exploring the SDK</a>.</p>
1893</dd>
1894
1895<dt>General notes:</dt>
1896<dd>
1897<ul>
1898<li>The AVD Launch dialog now allows you to set the scale value.</li>
1899<li>Fixes a potential NullPointerException in the SDK Manager when you launch an AVD that does not
1900  have a skin name specified.</li>
1901<li>Fixes an XML validation issue in older Java versions.</li>
1902<li>.apk packaging now properly ignores vi swap files as well as hidden files.</li>
1903</ul>
1904</dd>
1905</dl>
1906 </div>
1907</div>
1908
1909<div class="toggle-content closed">
1910  <p><a href="#" onclick="return toggleContent(this)">
1911    <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/triangle-closed.png" class="toggle-content-img"
1912      alt=""/>ADT 0.9.4</a> <em>(October 2009)</em>
1913  </p>
1914
1915  <div class="toggle-content-toggleme">
1916<dl>
1917<dt>Dependencies:</dt>
1918
1919<dd><p>This version of ADT requires features provided in SDK Tools r3 or higher. If you install
1920ADT 0.9.4, which is highly recommended, you should use the Android SDK
1921Manager to download the latest SDK Tools into your SDK. For more information,
1922see <a href="{@docRoot}sdk/exploring.html">Exploring the SDK</a>.</p>
1923</dd>
1924
1925<dt>Project Creation Wizard:</dt>
1926<dd>
1927<ul>
1928<li>New option to create a project from a sample by choosing it from a list.</li>
1929</ul>
1930</dd>
1931
1932<dt>Layout Editor:</dt>
1933<dd>
1934<ul>
1935<li>Improved Configuration selector that lets you see how your layout will
1936render on different devices. Default device descriptions include ADP1
1937and Google Ion, while SDK add-ons can also provide new descriptions.
1938A new UI allows you to create custom descriptions.</li>
1939<li>Adds a new clipping toggle, to let you see your full layout even if it's
1940bigger than the screen.</li>
1941</ul>
1942</dd>
1943
1944<dt>DDMS integration:</dt>
1945<dd>
1946<ul>
1947<li>Includes the improvements from the standlone DDMS, revision 3.</li>
1948<li>Adds an option to open HPROF files into eclipse instead of writing them on
1949disk. If a profiler such as MAT (<a href="http://eclipse.org/mat">Memory Analyzer
1950Tool</a>) is installed, it'll open the file.</li>
1951</ul>
1952</dd>
1953
1954<dt>Android SDK and AVD Manager integration:</dt>
1955<dd>
1956<ul>
1957<li>Includes the improvements from the standalone Android SDK and AVD Manager,
1958revision 3.</li>
1959</ul>
1960</dd>
1961</dl>
1962 </div>
1963</div>
1964