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diff --git a/docs/html/guide/developing/tools.jd b/docs/html/guide/developing/tools.jd new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..eab005de9d1f --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/html/guide/developing/tools.jd @@ -0,0 +1,112 @@ +page.title=Tools Overview +@jd:body + +<img src="{@docRoot}images/android_icon_125.png" alt="android_robot" align="right" width="125" height="137""> + +<p>The Android SDK includes a variety of custom tools that help you develop mobile +applications on the Android platform. The most important of these are the Android +Emulator and the Android Development Tools plugin for Eclipse, but the SDK also +includes a variety of other tools for debugging, packaging, and installing your +applications on the emulator. </p> + +<dl> + <dt><a href="{@docRoot}reference/emulator.html">Android Emulator</a></dt> + <dd>A virtual mobile device that runs on your computer. You use the emulator to design, + debug, and test your applications in an actual Android run-time environment. </dd> + + <dt><a href="{@docRoot}reference/hierarchy-viewer.html">Hierarchy Viewer</a> + <sup class="new">New!</sup></dt></dt> + <dd>The Hierarchy Viewer tool allows you to debug and optimize your user interface. + It provides a visual representation of your layout's hierarchy of Views and a magnified inspector + of the current display with a pixel grid, so you can get your layout just right. + </dd> + + <dt><a href="{@docRoot}reference/draw9patch.html">Draw 9-patch</a> + <sup class="new">New!</sup></dt> + <dd>The Draw 9-patch tool allows you to easily create a + {@link android.graphics.NinePatch} graphic using a WYSIWYG editor. It also previews stretched + versions of the image, and highlights the area in which content is allowed. + </dd> + + <dt><a href="{@docRoot}intro/installing.html#installingplugin">Android + Development Tools Plugin</a> for the Eclipse IDE</dt> + <dd>The ADT plugin adds powerful extensions to the Eclipse integrated environment, + making creating and debugging your Android applications easier and faster. If you + use Eclipse, the ADT plugin gives you an incredible boost in developing Android + applications: + </dd> + + <ul> + <li>It gives you access to other Android development tools from inside + the Eclipse IDE. For example, ADT lets you access the many capabilities of the + DDMS tool — taking screenshots, managing port-forwarding, setting breakpoints, + and viewing thread and process information — directly from Eclipse. + <li>It provides a New Project Wizard, which helps you quickly create and set up + all of the basic files you'll need for a new Android application.</li> + <li>It automates and simplifies the process of building your Android application.</li> + <li>It provides an Android code editor that helps you write valid XML for your + Android manifest and resource files.</li> + </ul> + + <p>For more information about the ADT plugin, including + installation instructions, see <a + href="{@docRoot}intro/installing.html#installingplugin" + title="ADT Plugin for Eclipse">Installing the ADT Plugin for + Eclipse</a>. For a usage example with screenshots, see <a + href="{@docRoot}intro/hello-android.html" title="Hello + Android">Hello Android</a>.</p> + + <dt><a href="{@docRoot}reference/ddms.html" >Dalvik Debug Monitor + Service</a> (ddms)</dt> + <dd>Integrated with Dalvik, the Android platform's custom VM, this tool + lets you manage processes on an emulator or device and assists in debugging. + You can use it to kill processes, select a specific process to debug, + generate trace data, view heap and thread information, take screenshots + of the emulator or device, and more. </dd> + + <dt><a href="{@docRoot}reference/adb.html" >Android Debug Bridge</a> (adb)</dt> + <dd>The adb tool lets you install your application's .apk files on an + emulator or device and access the emulator or device from a command line. + You can also use it to link a standard debugger to application code running + on an Android emulator or device.</dd> + + <dt><a href="{@docRoot}reference/aapt.html" >Android Asset + Packaging Tool</a> (aapt)</dt> + <dd>The aapt tool lets you create .apk files containing the binaries and + resources of Android applications.</dd> + + <dt><a href="{@docRoot}reference/aidl.html" >Android Interface + Description Language</a> (aidl)</dt> + <dd>Lets you generate code for an interprocess interface, such as what + a service might use.</dd> + + <dt><a href="{@docRoot}reference/adb.html#sqlite">sqlite3</a></dt> + <dd>Included as a convenience, this tool lets you access the SQLite data + files created and used by Android applications.</dd> + + <dt><a href="{@docRoot}reference/traceview.html" >Traceview</a></dt> + <dd> This tool produces graphical analysis views of trace log data that you + can generate from your Android application. </dd> + + <dt><a href="{@docRoot}reference/othertools.html#mksdcard">mksdcard</a></dt> + <dd>Helps you create a disk image that you can use with the emulator, + to simulate the presence of an external storage card (such as an SD card).</dd> + + <dt><a href="{@docRoot}reference/othertools.html#dx">dx</a></dt> + <dd>The dx tool rewrites .class bytecode into Android bytecode + (stored in .dex files.)</dd> + + <dt><a href="{@docRoot}reference/monkey.html" >UI/Application + Exerciser Monkey</a></dt> + <dd>The Monkey is a program that runs on your emulator or device and generates pseudo-random + streams of user events such as clicks, touches, or gestures, as well as a number of system- + level events. You can use the Monkey to stress-test applications that you are developing, + in a random yet repeatable manner.</dd> + + <dt><a href="{@docRoot}reference/othertools.html#activitycreator">activitycreator</a></dt> + <dd>A script that generates <a + href="http://ant.apache.org/" title="Ant">Ant</a> build files that + you can use to compile your Android applications. If you are developing + on Eclipse with the ADT plugin, you won't need to use this script. </dd> +</dl> + |