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diff --git a/docs/html/guide/developing/tools/index.jd b/docs/html/guide/developing/tools/index.jd index 6e9fde1..0e10377 100644 --- a/docs/html/guide/developing/tools/index.jd +++ b/docs/html/guide/developing/tools/index.jd @@ -3,27 +3,27 @@ page.title=Tools Overview <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/android_wrench.png" alt="" align="right"> -<p>The Android SDK includes a variety of custom tools that help you develop mobile -applications on the Android platform. The most important of these are the Android -Emulator and the Android Development Tools plugin for Eclipse, but the SDK also -includes a variety of other tools for debugging, packaging, and installing your +<p>The Android SDK includes a variety of custom tools that help you develop mobile +applications on the Android platform. The most important of these are the Android +Emulator and the Android Development Tools plugin for Eclipse, but the SDK also +includes a variety of other tools for debugging, packaging, and installing your applications on the emulator. </p> - + <dl> <dt><a href="adt.html">Android Development Tools Plugin</a> (for the Eclipse IDE)</dt> - <dd>The ADT plugin adds powerful extensions to the Eclipse integrated environment, - making creating and debugging your Android applications easier and faster. If you - use Eclipse, the ADT plugin gives you an incredible boost in developing Android + <dd>The ADT plugin adds powerful extensions to the Eclipse integrated environment, + making creating and debugging your Android applications easier and faster. If you + use Eclipse, the ADT plugin gives you an incredible boost in developing Android applications.</dd> <dt><a href="emulator.html">Android Emulator</a></dt> - <dd>A QEMU-based device-emulation tool that you can use to design, + <dd>A QEMU-based device-emulation tool that you can use to design, debug, and test your applications in an actual Android run-time environment. </dd> <dt><a href="avd.html">Android Virtual Devices (AVDs)</a></dt> <dd>Virtual device configurations that you create, to model device characteristics in the Android Emulator. In each configuration, you can specify the Android platform to run, the hardware options, and the - emulator skin to use. Each AVD functions as an independent device with + emulator skin to use. Each AVD functions as an independent device with it's own storage for user data, SD card, and so on. </dd> <dt><a href="hierarchy-viewer.html">Hierarchy Viewer</a></dt> @@ -37,53 +37,53 @@ applications on the emulator. </p> efficiency. </dd> - <dt><a href="draw9patch.html">Draw 9-patch</a></dt> - <dd>The Draw 9-patch tool allows you to easily create a - {@link android.graphics.NinePatch} graphic using a WYSIWYG editor. It also previews stretched - versions of the image, and highlights the area in which content is allowed. - </dd> + <dt><a href="draw9patch.html">Draw 9-patch</a></dt> + <dd>The Draw 9-patch tool allows you to easily create a + {@link android.graphics.NinePatch} graphic using a WYSIWYG editor. It also previews stretched + versions of the image, and highlights the area in which content is allowed. + </dd> - <dt><a href="ddms.html" >Dalvik Debug Monitor + <dt><a href="ddms.html" >Dalvik Debug Monitor Service</a> (ddms)</dt> - <dd>Integrated with Dalvik, the Android platform's custom VM, this tool - lets you manage processes on an emulator or device and assists in debugging. - You can use it to kill processes, select a specific process to debug, - generate trace data, view heap and thread information, take screenshots - of the emulator or device, and more. </dd> - + <dd>Integrated with Dalvik, the Android platform's custom VM, this tool + lets you manage processes on an emulator or device and assists in debugging. + You can use it to kill processes, select a specific process to debug, + generate trace data, view heap and thread information, take screenshots + of the emulator or device, and more. </dd> + <dt><a href="adb.html" >Android Debug Bridge</a> (adb)</dt> - <dd>The adb tool lets you install your application's .apk files on an - emulator or device and access the emulator or device from a command line. - You can also use it to link a standard debugger to application code running + <dd>The adb tool lets you install your application's .apk files on an + emulator or device and access the emulator or device from a command line. + You can also use it to link a standard debugger to application code running on an Android emulator or device.</dd> - <dt><a href="aapt.html">Android Asset + <dt><a href="aapt.html">Android Asset Packaging Tool</a> (aapt)</dt> - <dd>The aapt tool lets you create .apk files containing the binaries and + <dd>The aapt tool lets you create .apk files containing the binaries and resources of Android applications.</dd> - <dt><a href="aidl.html" >Android Interface + <dt><a href="aidl.html" >Android Interface Description Language</a> (aidl)</dt> <dd>Lets you generate code for an interprocess interface, such as what a service might use.</dd> <dt><a href="adb.html#sqlite">sqlite3</a></dt> - <dd>Included as a convenience, this tool lets you access the SQLite data + <dd>Included as a convenience, this tool lets you access the SQLite data files created and used by Android applications.</dd> <dt><a href="traceview.html" >Traceview</a></dt> - <dd> This tool produces graphical analysis views of trace log data that you + <dd> This tool produces graphical analysis views of trace log data that you can generate from your Android application. </dd> <dt><a href="othertools.html#mksdcard">mksdcard</a></dt> - <dd>Helps you create a disk image that you can use with the emulator, + <dd>Helps you create a disk image that you can use with the emulator, to simulate the presence of an external storage card (such as an SD card).</dd> <dt><a href="othertools.html#dx">dx</a></dt> - <dd>The dx tool rewrites .class bytecode into Android bytecode + <dd>The dx tool rewrites .class bytecode into Android bytecode (stored in .dex files.)</dd> - <dt><a href="monkey.html">UI/Application + <dt><a href="monkey.html">UI/Application Exerciser Monkey</a></dt> <dd>The Monkey is a program that runs on your emulator or device and generates pseudo-random streams of user events such as clicks, touches, or gestures, as well as a number of system- @@ -92,9 +92,9 @@ efficiency. <dt><a href="othertools.html#android">android</a></dt> <dd>A script that lets you manage AVDs and generate <a - href="http://ant.apache.org/" title="Ant">Ant</a> build files that + href="http://ant.apache.org/" title="Ant">Ant</a> build files that you can use to compile your Android applications. </dd> - + <dt><a href="zipalign.html">zipalign</a></dt> <dd>An important .apk optimization tool. This tool ensures that all uncompressed data starts with a particular alignment relative to the start of the file. This should always be used |