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Android

Posted by brian colliflower
brian colliflower
15,433 Points

trouble setting up eclipse

I have been working on the android apps with java. i want to follow along with the work but I dont want to down load the entire bundle Because I am in school for programing as well. I dont want to erase my work for school. I already have eclipse and some of the android tools I downloaded and installed. I dont have the screen simulation for the visual set up. any help would be apreciated thanks brian

4 Answers

Ben Jakuben
STAFF
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher

One nice thing about Eclipse/ADT is that it's totally self-contained. You could have 20 copies of it if you wanted! If you need one version for school then I would just leave that alone. Download the ADT and put it in a new place, and then when you set its workspace, you could either create a new one and copy your files in or even share the same workspace as your other installation. I'd recommend sharing the same workspace as you probably only want one version of your actual projects.

brian colliflower
brian colliflower
15,433 Points

thank you very much it is up and running

Paulo Aguiar
Paulo Aguiar
14,120 Points
Paulo Aguiar
Paulo Aguiar
14,120 Points

What would you be erasing? just save your project, and open it with the ADT version of eclipse in the bundle.

brian colliflower
brian colliflower
15,433 Points

do I really need to download the whole program over again or can I just import the tools

Paulo Aguiar
Paulo Aguiar
14,120 Points

Neither, your project files and the Integrated development environment (eclipse) are completely separate. .. find the folder where your project is, then import project from the ADT eclipse and you're good to go :)

Paulo Aguiar
Paulo Aguiar
14,120 Points
Paulo Aguiar
Paulo Aguiar
14,120 Points

You need to download eclipse ADT, but your project will be fine.

brian colliflower
brian colliflower
15,433 Points

ok got you I know the projects will be fine i was also trying to keep from having 2 diffirent copys of the same program on the computer but i will download ADT

Paulo Aguiar
Paulo Aguiar
14,120 Points
Paulo Aguiar
Paulo Aguiar
14,120 Points

*sorry for the conflicting double post :P ....