Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Getting started 3: tools

Setting up the required tools:
  • JDK 6
  • Eclipse 3.7
  • Android SDK r12
  • ADT (Android Development Tools) Eclipse plugin
  • EGit Eclipse plugin
Of these, the EGit plugin was new to me. I've heard many wondrous things about git, but I haven't used it much previously. At work, I've been dealing with CVS, SVN and Perforce. There been talk about switching, but we have always had some actual work to do and the current tools have been "good enough".

To host the VCS data, I set up an account with GitHub. Setting up a GitHub repository, a local project in eclipse, and pushing the project to GitHub took me some time. I really need to catch up with Git. Well, this is a start!

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