Android - How can I do development on my Android device?

Two years on: I use AIDE, their brief summary of features states:

Edit-compile-run cycle:

  • Create a sample App with a single click
  • Run your App with a single click
  • No root access required
  • Incremental compilation for fast build times
  • Uses Eclipse .classpath project format for compatibility
  • Integrated LogCat viewer

Real-time error checking:

  • Real time error analyis throughout the whole project as you type
  • Automatic Quick-Fixes for many errors

Refactoring:

  • Rename
  • Inline variable
  • Introduce variable
  • Extract method

Code:

  • Code formatter
  • Organize imports
  • Out-comment code
  • Create setters/getters/constructors from fields

Code navigation:

  • Goto defintion
  • Find usages
  • Goto symbol
  • Goto class

Editor:

  • Very fast editor even with large files
  • Code completion for Java and Android XML
  • Android online help directly from the code
  • Syntax highlighting for Java and XML
  • Unlimited Undo/Redo
  • Pinch zoom
  • Smart expand selection
  • Keyboard support with configurable keybindings
  • UI optimized for small screens to show as much code/content as possible

Filebrowser:

  • Built-in file manager with the most common features: Rename, delete, create file or folder
  • Dropbox integration
  • Git integration with Commit/Dicard/Push/Pull and SSH support.

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If you do scripting languages at all, check out SL4a (Scripting Layer For Android). It gives you access to the android API in each language - Python, Perl, JRuby, Lua, BeanShell, JavaScript, Tcl, and shell.

It comes with its own basic editor, but you can specify a different editor if you have others installed - I've used the Jota text editor with it.

Get SL4A here: http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/

I've build a few basic interactive android apps with this setup, and various console-only scripts. You should be able to configure it to store the files in dropbox or similar to get auto-syncing too.


If you want to get all meta, there's Terminal IDE, a full Java / HTML / Android development environment that runs on Android.

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