Why waste money on a piece of junk Wait, why are you even wasting time on Android development I did it because the company I was working for thought it would be worth their time to have a both an iOS and Android version of their product - since then theyve laid off half the company (the layoffs occurred after I left of my own will.) Oh, and because nobody else mentioned it: The Official IDE for Android Development is Android Studio.

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I have a programming book from Big Nerd Ranch that tells me to download Eclipse, but should I just use Xcode.

I am an iOS app developer who wants to start creating Android apps.

Saying all that Android development environment is fairly open: you can use VI, or even emacs as an editor - if you like pain and torture.

If you plan on using Eclipse for other projects in other languages such as Python, Java, CC I suggest installing the latest 4.3 and adding the Android plugin after that (plugins is an Eclipse term and are the extendible modules users install, and there are a lot).

Its free, and Intellij is a top notch Java IDE ( very often, outperforms Eclipse ).

Heres the page for it, looks like its still in beta, but Id probably use it anyways just because Eclipse is such a lousy IDE: I definitely wouldnt use Xcode.

The plugin architecture for Xcode 45 is undocumented, so I doubt anyone has written the necessary tools to make Xcode a viable IDE for Android development.

I had more plans for it but then I got busy and forgot about it.

Do you need to pay any kind of fee so anyone to test Android apps on Android devices like Apple with its 99 developer fee.

You can get all the tools to start developing for free, though.

Thanks Lee, I took that Java class a couple years ago and thought of trying out some Android versions of my apps.

I imagine you used Swing as your GUI framework, which last I checked wasnt available for Android.

If your application has a GUI, youll likely need to change it.

I am wondering what kind of device I can get to test it with.

It was a couple years ago and I have done nothing with Java since.

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