Installing Eclipse
Though other IDEs such as NetBeans offer Android development support, Eclipse has emerged as the most common choice for writing apps for Android. Android’s developers have designated Eclipse as the preferred environment and employ it throughout their official documentation and tutorials.
Eclipse, like NetBeans, provides a graphical user interface for writing Java programs. You can use it to create any kind of Java program (and it supports other programming languages as well).
Android requires Eclipse 3.5 or later.
To download Eclipse, visit http://eclipse.org/downloads.
Several different versions of the IDE are available. Pick the Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers. Java EE is the Java Enterprise Edition, and this version of ...
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