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diff --git a/docs/html/guide/developing/tools/index.jd b/docs/html/guide/developing/tools/index.jd index b3e4625..c603780 100644 --- a/docs/html/guide/developing/tools/index.jd +++ b/docs/html/guide/developing/tools/index.jd @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -page.title=Tools Overview +page.title=Tools @jd:body <img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/android_wrench.png" alt="" align="right"> @@ -10,99 +10,75 @@ 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 - applications.</dd> + <dt><a href="adb.html">Android Debug Bridge</a></dt> + <dd>A versatile tool lets you manage the state of an emulator instance + or Android-powered device.</dd> + + <dt><a href="android.html">android</a></dt> + <dd>Lets you manage AVDs, projects, and the installed components of the SDK. + </dd> + + <dt><a href="bmgr.html">bmgr</a></dt> + + <dd>Lets you interact with the Backup Manager on Android devices + supporting API Level 8 or greater. It provides commands to invoke backup and restore operations + so that you don't need to repeatedly wipe data or take similar intrusive steps in order to test + your application's backup agent. These commands are accessed via the adb shell. + </dd> + + <dt><a href="dmtracedump.html">dmtracedump</a></dt> + + <dd>Generates graphical call-stack diagrams from trace log files. + The tool uses the Graphviz Dot utility to create the graphical output, so you need to install + Graphviz before running <code>dmtracedump</code>. For more information on using <code>dmtracedump</code>, see + <a href="{@docRoot}guide/developing/debugging/debugging-tracing.html#dmtracedump">Profiling with + Traceview and dmtracedump</a> + </dd> + + <dt><a href="draw9patch.html">Draw 9-patch</a></dt> + <dd>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="emulator.html">Android Emulator</a></dt> <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 - it's own storage for user data, SD card, and so on. </dd> - - <dt><a href="hierarchy-viewer.html">Hierarchy Viewer</a></dt> - <dd>The Hierarchy Viewer tool allows you to debug and optimize your user interface. - It provides a visual representation of your layout's hierarchy of Views and a magnified inspector - of the current display with a pixel grid, so you can get your layout just right. - </dd> + <dt><a href="hprof-conv.html">hprof-conv</a></dt> - <dt><a href="layoutopt.html">layoutopt</a></dt> - <dd>This tool lets you quickly analyze your application's layouts for -efficiency. + <dd>Converts the HPROF file that is generated by the Android SDK tools to a + standard format so you can view the file in a profiling tool of your choice.</dd> + + <dt><a href="layoutopt.html">layoutopt</a></dt> + <dd>Lets you quickly analyze your application's layouts in order to + optimize them for 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="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> - - <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 - on an Android emulator or device. - <p>This is located in {@code <sdk>/platform-tools/}.</p></dd> - - <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 - resources of Android applications.</dd> - - <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 - 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 - 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, - 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 - (stored in .dex files.)</dd> - - <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- - level events. You can use the Monkey to stress-test applications that you are developing, - in a random yet repeatable manner.</dd> + <dt><a href="mksdcard.html">logcat</a></dt> + <dd>Lets you read system log messages that are output on an Android device or emulator.</dd> + + <dt><a href="mksdcard.html">mksdcard</a></dt> + <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="monkey.html">Monkey</a></dt> + <dd>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-level events. + You can use the Monkey to stress-test applications that you are developing, in a random yet repeatable manner.</dd> <dt><a href="monkeyrunner_concepts.html">monkeyrunner</a></dt> - <dd> - The monkeyrunner tool provides an API for writing Python programs that control an Android device - or emulator from outside of Android code. - </dd> - <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 - 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 + <dd>Provides an API for writing programs that control an Android device + or emulator from outside of Android code.</dd> + + <dt><a href="proguard.html">ProGuard</a></dt> + <dd>Shrinks, optimizes, and obfuscates your code by removing unused code and renaming classes, + fields, and methods with semantically obscure names.</dd> + + <dt><a href="sqlite3.html">sqlite3</a></dt> + <dd>Lets you access the SQLite data files created and used by Android applications.</dd> + + <dt><a href="zipalign.html">zipalign</a></dt> + <dd>Optimizes <code>.apk</code> files by ensuring that all uncompressed data starts with a particular alignment relative to the start of the file. This should always be used to align .apk files after they have been signed.</dd> </dl> |