When Google released the Android open mobile platform, they have made an Eclipse plugin to be able to develop Android software using the Eclipse IDE. If you’re a Netbeans user, don’t worry because you can use Netbeans for creating Android applications also. Several guys created a Netbeans plugin that makes it possible to do Android software development under Netbeans.
To start setting up Android development under Netbeans, just open up your Netbeans 6.5 IDE. After starting up, click on the Tools | Plugin from the menu and select the Settings tab from the dialog box. Click on the Add button and enter the Name of the plugin and update URL for the plugin your are manually adding. You can put any text for the Name field, the plugin update URL for the Android for Netbeans plugin is http://kenai.com/downloads/nbandroid/updates.xml .
After clicking on Ok, it should now be included in the list of configured update centers.
Go to the “Availalble Plugins” tab and you should see Android in the list. Click on the checkbox to mark it for installation. Then click the “Ok” button.
You’ll get a dialog box similar to the one below informing you that the Android plugin will be installed. Click on the “Next” button.
The license agreement will be displayed. You need to agree to to install the Android plugin. Click on the “Install” button once you have clicked on the “I accept..” checkbox.
It should start download the Android plugin.
After the download, you’ll get a message similar to the one below. It basically says that the plugin hasn’t been signed by the Netbeans group. This serves as a warning for potentially dangerous plugins. If you trust the developers of the plugin, just click on the “Continue” button.
After which, you should get an “Installation completed successfully” message.
Now that the Android plugin for Netbeans has been installed, you need to do just one more step to configure it. You need to tell Netbeans that it can now also setup projects for the Android open mobile platform. To do this, click on the Tools | Java Platform menu of your Netbeans IDE.
Click on the “Add Platform” button. Select the “Google Android Open Handheld Platform” and click the “Next” button.
Now locate where you have extracted the Android SDK on your computer and click “Next”.
Give the platform a name. I think “Android” would be appropriate and click on the “Finish” button.
You should now have added Android in your list of supported platforms for the Netbeans IDE.
That’s it. You can now start developing Android applications using your Netbeans IDE. I’ll post about writing an Android application in Netbeans next time.
Thanks Gerry. Let me check this out now.
Thanx a bunch gerry!
Thanks Buddy……
Was sucked by using the Eclipse….
Now, I can show off using NetBeans..
thx a lot………!!!
i successfully installed it but…
when i run my project i don’t get any device to select…
do u know abt the same…?
Hi Prasad, haven’t encountered that problem.
Prasad, you need to create a AVD!
To do that type this into a console:
android create avd –target 2 –name my_avd
This will create you an AVD called my_avd. If you don’t have this command “android”, you have to link that into the Global PATH variable, or change your directory to your sdk/tools lib and then give the command!
I’ve got another problem. Everything works fine. my emulator boots up and I can use it but I’m not able to build Activities…my netbeans says:
Device’s package manager not ready to install new packages
Anyone help?
Thx
That’s Great, let’s start android
Thanks
Everything works fine for me until I get to this step:
Now locate where you have extracted the Android SDK on your computer and click “Next”.
I get a message saying “a platform target has to be selected”. I note that the directory structure where I unzipped the SDK does not look like what’s in your screen shot.
I’m using nb 6.7.1 and Android SDK 1.5 I downloaded today.
Can you help?
Nevermind.
I think perhaps I missed a step when installing the Androind SDK… using the android tool to actually download and install it.
I received the error ” … Device’s package manager not ready to install new packages” for every Android app I tried. Was working fine yesterday…
I cleared up some RAM (closed a few other things like Opera, etc) and suddenly the error disappeared.
Try that (clearing some RAM).
chuck
Hi all
I have a problem ,i cant add the android platform to my netbeans , the next button is not enabled after i choose the android platform .please help me
Yogi: add platforms using android sdk tool. C:\Downloads\android-sdk_r04-windows\android-sdk-windows\”SDK Setup.exe”
I had the same problem while selecting the platform where it says ‘a platform target has to be selected’, but shows no targets to select. After installing the docs for android though, it worked fine.
How exactly do you install the Android docs?