D. Eclipse IDE Tips and Tricks

The Eclipse IDE is the most popular development environment for Android developers. In this appendix, we provide a number of helpful tips and tricks for using Eclipse to develop Android applications quickly and effectively.

Organizing Your Eclipse Workspace

In this section, we provide a number of tips and tricks to help you organize your Eclipse workspace for optimum Android development.

Integrating with Source Control Services

Eclipse has the ability to integrate with many source control packages using add-ons or plug-ins. This allows Eclipse to manage checking out a file—making it writable—when you first start to edit a file, checking a file in, updating a file, showing a file’s status, and a number of other ...

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