Android Development Tools

Before we start a new project , let us know our tools.

The Android SDK includes several tools and utilities to help us create , test , and debug our projects.

ADT plug-in incorporates most of tools into the Eclipse IDE , where you can access them from DDMS perspective , including:

• Android SDK and Virtual Device Manager

used to create and manage Android Virtual Devices (AVD) and SDK packages. The AVD hosts an emulator running a

particular build of Android, letting you specify the supported SDK version , Screen resolution , SD card storage etc.

So, you might have several AVDs for different set of hardware.

• Android Emulator

implementation of the Android virtual machine to designed to run within a virtual device on our development computer.

• Dalvik Debug Monitoring Service (DDMS)

Use DDMS to monitor and control the Dalvik virtual machines on which we are debugging our applications. And Screen

capturing ,thread and heap information , and logcat information.

• Android Asset Packaging Tool (AAPT)

Constructs the distributable Android package files.

• Android Debug Bridge (ADB)

A client-server application that provides a link to a running emulator . It lets us copy files, install compiled application

package (.apk) and run shell commands.