Thursday, November 17, 2011

Close, but not good enough. Eclipse in Ubuntu

So, I recently reinstalled Ubuntu and therefore I need to set up my Android development environment again.

I saw that Ubuntu ships Eclipse 3.7 now. Woot! Reasonably new version! Very nice.

Except, Android Development Tools can't be installed since Eclipse Marketplace isn't included by default. What's the favorite solution? Download a new version of Eclipse that has it.

No. I don't want to do that.

So, If you add the Indigo repository to eclipse.
Install new Software -> Add new repository


Then you go to
Install new Software -> Switch to the Indigo Repository -> General Purpose Tools -> Marketplace Client

Install that one.

Now we can go on to installing the Android tools by adding a new software repository:

https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/
Now, proceed as normal with installing all developer tools from there.

By the way, why can't eclipse have their repository over https?

Cheers,
Daniel

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