Android Application Development

Question

I am new to Android development. I need information to develop an Android application. Could you help me with this. I am a C # developer using Visual studio. Can you tell me if I can develop an Android application using Visual Studio? If I can, where do I start?

Thanks in advance.

-Ankit

Answer 1

Officially, Google does not support Visual Studio. Therefore, for this you need to use the Eclipse Java / J2EE IDE.

See here:

Install Android SDK:

http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html

Installing the ADT plugin in eclipse:

http://developer.android.com/sdk/eclipse-adt.html

Answer 2

You can watch MonoDroid , which runs inside Visual Studio (it should also be available inside MonoDevelop when it's released). It is currently limited to limited viewing, but now it is pretty stable.

Answer 3

Yes, MonoDroid is coming soon, and you don’t need to learn a new language. In any case, C # is really close to Java.

Answer 4

You can use the Eclipse + ADT plugin, or you can install a fully customized and ready to use version of the Eclipse + Android SDK called Motorola MotoDev Studio.

Check out MotoDev features

Download it from here http://developer.motorola.com/docstools/motodevstudio/download/

Please note that you will have to upload separate images for the platforms and versions that you intend to emulate.

Answer 5

Android has no sdk for visual studio. As far as I knew, there are 2 options

1. Eclipse

The links already mentioned above.

2. Netbeans

http://kenai.com/projects/nbandroid

http://wiki.netbeans.org/IntroAndroidDevNetBeans

I am developing at Eclipse. And there is a lot of support for eclipse ide (for android).

Answer 6

I do not think you can use Visual Studio. I mean, you may be able to write codes and manage packages using VS, but in the end you will have to collect and create things manually using the terminal emulator.

This is the way Android docs offers you to develop a non-eclipse environment.

Go to Eclipse, your life will be much easier. You don’t have to focus much on programming problems, but on business logic, because Eclipse along with the ADT plugin is optimized for Android development.

Answer 7

MOTODEV Studio is a free Eclipse-based Motorola IDE with all the plugins you need to get started developing Android, as well as some unique features that will make your life a little easier. http://developer.android.com

As for Visual Studio, some success has been achieved. Check out this post showing how to debug. Of course, now it is only NDK, but I am sure that everything will develop. http://ian-ni-lewis.blogspot.com/2011/01/its-like-coming-home-again.html