ADT extensions

Introduction

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Quickly new Activity/Service/BroadcastReceiver/ContentProvider in Android Project with a wizard and configurate in AndroidManifest.xml.

Main function list:

  • New Activity/Service/BroadcastReceiver.
  • Customize action and category for intent-filter.
  • New ContentProvider.
  • Customize authorities for ContentProvider.

Notes:

  • The publish version is based on Eclipse development version, 3.5 is the initial version.
  • This plugin is developed under Eclipse 3.5 + JDK 1.5.
  • Test under jdk 1.5 + eclipse 3.5 Win(32bit) OS and jre 1.6 + eclipse 3.6 Linux(64bit) OS

Install

Marketplace client

  • Click “Help->Marketplace” in Eclipse
  • Search “ADT “ as keyword to find “Android ADT extentions” plugin in result.
  • Click “Install”

Local update site

  • Click Help->Install New Software… in Eclipse to open install page
  • Input “http://ieclipse.cn/updates/adt-ext" press “Enter” key
  • Select ADT extentions feature to install after pending

Local update site

  • Click Help->Install New Software… in Eclipse to open install page
  • Click “Add…” button open add site dialog
  • Click “Archive…” button to select .zip file.
  • Click “OK” back to install page
  • Select ADT extentions feature to install

Tutorial

New Activity

  • Choose a package right click and select “New->Others” in popups menu.
  • Select New Activity under Android category.(If you work in java perspective, New Activity would be visible popups menu.) to open wizard page.
  • Check “with super suffix” to add super suffix to type name.(such with a Activity suffix)
  • Select methos stubs which you want to create.
  • Click “Add…” to add System action/category
  • Click “Remove…” to remove selected action/category
  • Click “Add custom” in popups to add custom action/category
  • Click “Up/Down” to sort selected action/category
  • Double click to edit seleted action/category

New Provider

  • See New Activity steps to open New Provider wizard page
  • Input authorities for provider

Screenshot

see https://Jamling.github.com/adt-extensions/wiki/Screenshot.

Reference

https://Jamling.github.com/adt-extensions