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Arkapravo
Arkapravo

Reputation: 4094

To develop in Android is it an absolute necessity to use Eclipse?

Do I need to use Eclipse IDE in order to develop in Android ? Most of the user guides insist on Eclipse !

Upvotes: 0

Views: 128

Answers (5)

Fabian
Fabian

Reputation: 1224

No it's not. You could even use nicer languages like scala... (take with a pinch of salt)

Upvotes: 0

mudit
mudit

Reputation: 25534

Eclipse is very good IDE for android application development. Otherwise there are other IDE's like:

Netbeans, JetBrains as mentioned by DAC

Plus you have got:

Upvotes: 1

uvesten
uvesten

Reputation: 3355

No, it isn't. See developer.android.com for instructions on how to develop, both with and without eclipse.

Managing Projects from the Command Line and Building and Running from the Command Line, for example, shows how to manage and build a project (without Eclipse), respectively.

Upvotes: 1

DAC
DAC

Reputation: 1799

I think it may be somewhat futile to develop for Android without an IDE if you plan on using the emulator, debugging and anything else that is useful for Android development; however, most of the other large Java IDE's support android:

Upvotes: 0

John Chadwick
John Chadwick

Reputation: 3213

No, it isn't; however, I don't see why you'd want to do otherwise. It greatly simplifies things when using Google's own SDK and Eclipse plugins.

Upvotes: 0

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