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diff --git a/docs/html/guide/developing/tools/index.jd b/docs/html/guide/developing/tools/index.jd index c38f6c5..b491a4f 100644 --- a/docs/html/guide/developing/tools/index.jd +++ b/docs/html/guide/developing/tools/index.jd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ page.title=Tools Overview @jd:body -<img src="{@docRoot}images/android_icon_125.png" alt="android_robot" align="right" width="125" height="137""> +<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 @@ -10,51 +10,29 @@ includes a variety of other tools for debugging, packaging, and installing your applications on the emulator. </p> <dl> - <dt><a href="{@docRoot}emulator.html">Android Emulator</a></dt> + <dt><a href="emulator.html">Android Emulator</a></dt> <dd>A virtual mobile device that runs on your computer. You use the emulator to design, debug, and test your applications in an actual Android run-time environment. </dd> - <dt><a href="{@docRoot}hierarchy-viewer.html">Hierarchy Viewer</a> - <sup class="new">New!</sup></dt></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="{@docRoot}draw9patch.html">Draw 9-patch</a> - <sup class="new">New!</sup></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="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>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> - - <ul> - <li>It gives you access to other Android development tools from inside - the Eclipse IDE. For example, ADT lets you access the many capabilities of the - DDMS tool — taking screenshots, managing port-forwarding, setting breakpoints, - and viewing thread and process information — directly from Eclipse. - <li>It provides a New Project Wizard, which helps you quickly create and set up - all of the basic files you'll need for a new Android application.</li> - <li>It automates and simplifies the process of building your Android application.</li> - <li>It provides an Android code editor that helps you write valid XML for your - Android manifest and resource files.</li> - </ul> + <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> - <p>For more information about the ADT plugin, including - installation instructions, see <em>Installing the ADT Plugin for - Eclipse</em> in your SDK package. For a usage example with screenshots, see the <a - href="{@docRoot}tutorials/hello-android.html" title="Hello - Android">Hello Android</a> tutorial.</p> + <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="{@docRoot}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. @@ -62,49 +40,49 @@ applications on the emulator. </p> generate trace data, view heap and thread information, take screenshots of the emulator or device, and more. </dd> - <dt><a href="{@docRoot}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.</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.</dd> - <dt><a href="{@docRoot}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="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="{@docRoot}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="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="{@docRoot}adb.html#sqlite">sqlite3</a></dt> + <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="{@docRoot}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="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="{@docRoot}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#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="{@docRoot}othertools.html#dx">dx</a></dt> - <dd>The dx tool rewrites .class bytecode into Android bytecode - (stored in .dex files.)</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="{@docRoot}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- 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="{@docRoot}othertools.html#activitycreator">activitycreator</a></dt> - <dd>A script that generates <a - href="http://ant.apache.org/" title="Ant">Ant</a> build files that - you can use to compile your Android applications. If you are developing - on Eclipse with the ADT plugin, you won't need to use this script. </dd> + <dt><a href="othertools.html#activitycreator">activitycreator</a></dt> + <dd>A script that generates <a + href="http://ant.apache.org/" title="Ant">Ant</a> build files that + you can use to compile your Android applications. If you are developing + on Eclipse with the ADT plugin, you won't need to use this script. </dd> </dl> |