ADT Plugin for Eclipse

• "Go To Declaration" hyperlink support: You can jump directly from code references (such as R.id.main) to the corresponding XML declaration, or from XML attributes (such as @string) to the corresponding resource definition, or from manifest XML registrations to activities and services.
• Improvements were made to name refactoring.
• AVDs now automatically save their state, so they can restart almost instantly. You can enable this feature when creating an AVD or by editing an AVD with the AVD Manager.
• Improvements to the Visual Layout Editor:
  • Support for rendering targets: You can now choose an arbitrary Android platform to render the current page, regardless of the project's minimum platform. This makes it easy to verify the layout and appearance of your activity on different versions of the platform.
  • Improved support for empty and nested layouts: Dragging items over nested and invisible layouts automatically enlarges and highlights these layouts, so that they can receive drops.
  • XML formatting improvements: The editor generates cleaner XML and you can now enable XML auto-formatting in the Preferences menu.
  • Improved Outline labels: The Outline tab now displays additional information about each View. Textual Views display a snippet of the actual text. Views with a source (such as ImageView) displays the resource name. Included Views display the name of the View.
  • When you right click a View in the Layout Editor, the context menu now contains Edit ID... and Edit Text... items. The Properties... context menus now list all of the properties and provide a way to edit them (Details).
  • The layout editor now properly handles <include> and <merge> tags (Details).
  • "Extract as Include" refactoring: The Layout Editor has a new refactoring that allows you to select one or more views in a layout, and extract it into a separate layout (Details).
  • Improved diagnostics for class loading and rendering errors: Class loading and rendering error messages are more useful and provide better information about the root cause of the error.
  • Improved error handling to prevent drag and reordering operations from adding children into an AdapterView.
  • Outline reordering: Reordering your views in the Outline tab is much easier (Details).
  • Fix for keybinding bug where keyboard shortcuts did not work (Issues 13231 and 13134).
  • Fix for problems with Custom layout attribute menu (Issue 13134).
  • Automatic configuration for various view types: Certain views have properties configured by default. For example, the width of an EditText object is set to match_parent when added to a vertical LinearLayout or a default image is added to an ImageButton.
  • Previews during dragging: Dragging from the palette or dragging within the layout editor now shows live previews of the dragged item.
  • Navigation improvements: In the Layout Editor, double-clicking Views jumps to the corresponding XML element. In the Outline view, double-clicking opens the Properties view.
  • The editor has Honeycomb style animation preview support.
  • Improved rendering support for various Views (such as TabHosts and SlidingDrawers) in Honeycomb (Issues 3162 and 13092).
  • Included layouts can be rendered and edited in the context of the layouts that include them. From a layout using an <include> tag, double-clicking on the <include> element edits the referenced layout in the context of the current layout. Additionally, when editing a layout that is included by other layouts, you can quickly change between context layouts, by right clicking in the editor and choosing Show included in.... This feature is only available in Honeycomb.
• This release fixes many other bugs, but the most important ones are listed below:
  • Fixed issue that prevented launching debug builds on productions devices when debuggable=true was not set in the Android manifest.
  • The LogCat view in DDMS properly handles UTF-8 characters.
  • The SDK Manager is more reliable on Windows (Details).
  • A JUnit initialization bug that prevented you from working with JUnit tests was fixed (Issue 12411).

• This is a quick follow-up to ADT 8.0.0 to fix some bugs.
• Fixes an issue in which projects failed to compile, citing a dex error.
• Better ProGuard error reporting when exporting applications for release.

Also see the recent release notes for 8.0.0, below.

• New version number scheme that follows the SDK Tools revision number. The major version number for your ADT plugin should now always match the revision number of your SDK Tools. For example, ADT 8.x is for SDK Tools r8.
• Support for true debug build. You no longer need to change the value of the debuggable attribute in the Android Manifest.

  Incremental builds automatically insert debuggable="true", but if you perform "export signed/unsigned application package", ADT does not insert it. If you manually set debuggable="true" in the manifest file, then release builds will actually create a debug build (it does not remove it if you placed it there).

• Automatic ProGuard support in release builds. For it to work, you need to have a proguard.config property in the default.properties file that points to a ProGuard config file.
• Completely rewritten Visual Layout Editor. (This is still a work in progress.) Now includes:
  • Full drag and drop from palette to layout for all Layout classes.
  • Move widgets inside a Layout view, from one Layout view to another and from one layout file to another.
  • Contextual menu with enum/flag type properties.
  • New zoom controls.
• New HierarchyViewer plug-in integrated in Eclipse.
• Android launch configurations don't recompile the whole workspace on launch anymore.
• android.jar source and javadoc location can now be configured.

ADT 0.9.9 replaces ADT 0.9.8 and is designed for use with SDK Tools r7 and later. ADT 0.9.9 includes the ADT 0.9.8 features as well as an important bugfix, so we recommend that you upgrade as soon as possible. If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r7 into your SDK, use the Android SDK Manager to do so.

• Fixes a problem in project import, in which source files were deleted in some cases.
• Includes all other ADT 0.9.8 features (see below).

ADT 0.9.8 is now deprecated. Please use ADT 0.9.9 instead.

• Adds a new Action, "Rename Application Package", to the Android Tools contextual menu. The Action does a full application package refactoring.
• Adds support for library projects that don't have a source folder called src/. There is now support for any number of source folders, with no name restriction. They can even be in subfolder such as src/java. If you are already working with library projects created in ADT 0.9.7, see Migrating library projects to ADT 0.9.8 for important information about moving to the new ADT environment.
• Adds support for library projects that depend on other library projects.
• Adds support for additional resource qualifiers: car/desk, night/notnight and navexposed/navhidden.
• Adds more device screen types in the layout editor. All screen resolution/density combinations listed in the Supporting Multiple Screens are now available.
• Fixes problems with handling of library project names that contain characters that are incompatible with the Eclipse path variable. Now properly sets up the link between the main project and the library project.

The ADT Plugin now supports the use of library projects during development, a capability that lets you store shared Android application code and resources in a separate development project. You can then reference the library project from other Android projects and, at build time, the tools compile the shared code and resources as part of the dependent applications. More information about this feature is available in the Creating and Managing Projects document.

If you are not developing in Eclipse, SDK Tools r6 provides the equivalent library project support through the Ant build system.

ADT 0.9.6 is designed for use with SDK Tools r5 and later. Before updating to ADT 0.9.6, we highly recommend that you use the Android SDK and AVD Manager to install SDK Tools r5 into your SDK.

• Editing default.properties outside of Eclipse will now automatically update the project.
• Loads the SDK content only when a project requires it. This will make Eclipse use less resources when the SDK contains many versions of Android.
• Resolves potential deadlock between modal dialogs, when launching ADT the first time with the SDK Usage panel.
• Fixes issues with the New Project Wizard when selecting samples.

• Adds support for platform samples components.
• Improves support for dependency between components.
• AVDs now sorted by API level.
• The AVD creation dialog now enforces a minimum SD card size of 9MB.
• Prevents deletion of running AVDs.

• DDMS plug-in now contains the Allocation Tracker view.
• New action in the Logcat view: "Go to problem" lets you go directly from an exception trace output to the code.

• Explode mode in the Visual Layout Editor adds a margin to all layout objects so that it's easier to see embedded or empty layouts.
• Outline mode in the Visual Layout Editor draws layout outline to make it easier to see layout objects.
• Several fixes in the configuration selector of the Visual Layout Editor.

• Applications launched from ADT now behave as if they were clicked from the Home screen.
• Fixes issue where add-on with no optional library would not show up as valid targets for application launches.
• Resolves possible crash when launching applications.

ADT 0.9.5 requires features provided in SDK Tools r4 or higher. If you install ADT 0.9.5, which is highly recommended, you should use the Android SDK and AVD Manager to download the latest SDK Tools into your SDK. For more information, see Adding SDK Components.

• AVD Launch dialog now shows scale value.
• Fixes potential NPE in SDK Manager on AVD launch, for older AVD with no skin name specified.
• Fixes XML validation issue in on older Java versions.
• .apk packaging now properly ignores vi swap files as well as hidden files.

ADT 0.9.4 requires features provided in SDK Tools r3 or higher. If you install ADT 0.9.4, which is highly recommended, you should use the Android SDK and AVD Manager to download the latest SDK Tools into your SDK. For more information, see Adding SDK Components.

• New option to create a project from a sample by choosing it from a list.

• Improved Configuration selector that lets you see how your layout will render on different devices. Default device descriptions include ADP1 and Google Ion, while SDK add-ons can also provide new descriptions. A new UI allows you to create custom descriptions.
• Adds a new clipping toggle, to let you see your full layout even if it's bigger than the screen.

• Includes the improvements from the standlone DDMS, revision 3.
• Adds an option to open HPROF files into eclipse instead of writing them on disk. If a profiler such as MAT (Memory Analyzer Tool) is installed, it'll open the file.

• Includes the improvements from the standalone Android SDK and AVD Manager, revision 3.