Android IDE

kryptonmight

I've been developing a few Windows Phone apps in Visual Studio but now I want to try my hand at developing Android apps.

I downloaded the Android SDK bundle from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

I started the first tutorial but I'm finding at very code based for adding things like buttons etc. I'm completely new to Eclipse but isn't there a kind of WYSIWYG editor in Eclipse that will let me drop controls on the UI and then add code, similar to how it works in Visual Studio?

Sorry for the basic questions, but as I say, I'm completely new to Eclipse and have only ever used Visual Studio.

srsly78

Yes there is: http://developer.android.com/tools/help/adt.html#graphical-editor

kryptonmight

srsly78 wrote: »

Yes there is: http://developer.android.com/tools/help/adt.html#graphical-editor

Thanks, I'll check that out later.

carlmango11

If it's the same one that comes as part of the developer tools it's crap.

Maybe I was just using it wrong but in my experience for Android you really just need to learn how to use the XML controls/layouts

ChRoMe

srsly78 wrote: »

Yes there is: http://developer.android.com/tools/help/adt.html#graphical-editor

Thats considered completely out of date at this stage. Android Studio or IntelliJ is what is recommended.