May 17th, 2012· New window management in the layout editor
· New configuration chooser in the layout editor
· Lint-on-Save for Java files
· Lint check ensuring that when you edit() a SharedPreference object you call commit()
· Asset Studio Wizard support for padding and turning off background shapes
· More bug fixes
April 18th, 2012· A lot of bug fixes, particularly in the Lint area.
· Performance and memory fixes (loading SDK data should be 30% faster.)
A few new lint rules:
· Detect usages of Toast.makeText() without calling show() on the result, as well as passing invalid duration parameters (e.g. a number instead of one of the two allowed constants.)
· Detect incorrect manifest registrations (where elements such as , etc are placed under the wrong parent.)
· Several security checks: Look for exported content providers without required permissions, look for creation of world readable files and preferences, look for calls to android.webkit.WebSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled.
New property sheet in the layout editor which offers:
· Highlighting (in bold) for important attributes.
· Inline preview of colors and images, as well as the corresponding resource name.
· Displays default values, when available.
· Completion of resource values and enum and flag constants.
· Support for showing and hiding "advanced" properties.
· Nested properties (and collapse all and expand all) for better categorization. For example, layout params are listed first as a single nested property.
· Tooltips over the attribute names, not values, so they never obscure the value column.
· Checkbox support for boolean values.
· Support for switching between alphabetical and natural sort orders.
· NOTE: This feature is still in development, and in particular the window management is being improved. For now you may want to drag the property sheet window over and dock it below the outline, since it looks better as a tall window than Eclipse's default wide window configuration for the property sheet.
Support XML editor outlines for layout files:
· Switching back and forth between the text editor and graphical editor will alternate between the two outlines, and in particular the XML editor outline will keep up to date with edits in the editor, and selection will follow the mouse cursor etc.
SDK Manager:
· Cache to avoid downloading repository definitions all the time.
· New "Tools > Manage Add-on Sites" option that allows deactivating 3rd party sites (e.g. if one or more are temporarily slow to load.)
Fixes in Ant:
· Test projects now have access to the full classpath from the tested projects, including Library Projects and 3rd party jar
· Applications embedding tests can now be deployed and tested, including with code coverage, like test applications.
NDK support (alpha):
· Initial support for building and debugging projects with C/C++ code.
· To enable this, install the NDK feature (depends on CDT), and then set the path to NDK in Android Preferences.
· Add NDK nature to an Android project by right clicking on the project and select "Android Tools -> Add Native Support".
· To debug an NDK project, create a new debug configuration of type "Android Native Application".
April 10th, 2012Dependencies:
· Java 1.6 or higher is required for ADT 18.0.0.
· Eclipse Helios (Version 3.6.2) or higher is required for ADT 18.0.0.
· ADT 18.0.0 is designed for use with SDK Tools r18. If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r18 into your SDK, use the Android SDK Manager to do so.
Bug fixes:
· Fixed problem where exporting release package does not recompile libraries in release mode.
March 22nd, 2012General improvements:
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New build features
· Added feature to automatically setup JAR dependencies. Any .jar files in the /libs folder are added to the build configuration (similar to how the Ant build system works). Also, .jar files needed by library projects are also automatically added to projects that depend on those library projects. (more info)
· Added a feature that allows you to run some code only in debug mode. Builds now generate a class called BuildConfig containing a DEBUG constant that is automatically set according to your build type. You can check the (BuildConfig.DEBUG) constant in your code to run debug-only functions.
· Added support for custom views with custom attributes in libraries. Layouts using custom attributes must use the namespace URI http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto instead of the URI that includes the app package name. This URI is replaced with the app specific one at build time.
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Improved Lint features.
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Improved the Lint user interface
· Added Run Lint toolbar action with a dropdown menu for selecting specific (or all) projects, clearing results and other actions.
· Updated the results window to be organized as a tree rather than a flat list. Each issue type has a single top level item, which makes it easier to quickly scan through the reported issues and narrow down to the issues you are most interested in.
· Added many new toolbar actions to the results window, including expand/collapse, ignore in file, ignore in project, ignore everywhere, show options, and configure columns.
· Added new column options for the Lint Warnings tab, such as category, priority, project, file and line. The column selection (as well as the column sizes) are persisted. You can also click on columns to sort by those values.
· Added Enable All and Disable All buttons to the Lint Options dialog, and a search filter textbox to filter by issue id, summary and severity.
· Added Quick Outline for XML editors (Ctrl-O, Command-O). This feature shows the structure of the current file including icons and ids, lets you filter and quickly jump to specific ids.
· Updated the resource chooser to shows the resolved value for resources. For example, when selecting @string/hello the chooser displays a resolved value such as "Hello World"). The resource chooser also now allows you to edit the chosen value directly.
· Updated Layout Editor so that it does not assign default ids to layouts, includes and merge tags. This behavior tended to pollute the namespace with a lot of unused resources since layouts are not usually manipulated via code, or referenced from XML. (The RelativeLayout editor automatically assigns ids to views without ids when pointing to them.)
· Added ability to export screenshots from the Layout Editor
Bug fixes:
· Fixed problem using Layout Editor with SlidingDrawer which could not be dragged into the layout on some platforms.
· Fixed preview rendering for SlidingDrawer and TabHost..
· Fixed issues that could prevent layout rendering due to unresolvable resources.
· Fixed a bug in resource chooser which made some types of framework resources impossible to select.
· Fixed a bug in the formatter where a certain whitespace pattern could result in a non-space character getting deleted.
· Fixed a locale bug affecting Turkish locales in particular.
· Fixed issue where dex complains about duplicate classes in cases where a Library Project depends on the same jar files or Java-only projects.
· Fixed issue where test projects had to independently reference the library projects used by an app project. Now referencing only the app project is enough.
March 9th, 2012· This contains bug fixes (primarily in the build system) based on bugs reported in preview 1, 2 and 3.
February 28th, 2012· This contains a number of bug fixes based on bugs reported in preview 1.
February 24th, 2012· DDMS can now show the live detailed network usage of an app (More Info)
ProGuard:
· Bundled ProGuard updated to version 4.7. In addition to many new features, this will fix the "Conversion to Dalvik format failed with error 1" error some users have experienced.
· The default proguard.cfg file has been updated with better default flags for Android.
· The ProGuard configuration file has been split in half, with project specific flags kept in project and the generic Android flags distributed (and updated) with the tools themselves.
Lint:
· Lint now checks Java code, and checks which previously performed pattern based searches in the Java code (such as the unused resource check) have been rewritten to use the more accurate Java parse trees.
· Lint supports library projects, so for example the unused resource check will properly handle resources declared in a library project and referenced in a downstream project.
· Lint warnings can be suppressed in Java code with the new @SuppressLint annotation, and in XML files with the new tools: namespace and ignore-attribute.
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New lint checks
· Find Android API calls that require a version of Android higher than the minimum supported version. You can use the new @TargetApi annotation to specify local overrides for conditionally loaded code. (More Info)
· Performance rules
· About 30 other new rules
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Revamped Eclipse Lint UI
· New "Run Lint" toolbar action with a dropdown menu for selecting specific (or all) projects, clearing results, etc.
· The results window is now organized as a tree rather than a flat list. Each issue type has a single top level item, which makes it easier to quickly scan through the reported issues and narrow down to issues you are most interested in.
· The results window contains many new toolbar actions, including expand/collapse, ignore in file, ignore in project, ignore everywhere, show options, and configure columns.
· There are new columns available, such as category, priority, project, file and line. The column selection (as well as the column sizes) are persisted. You can click on columns to sort by that column.
· The Lint Options dialog has Enable All and Disable All buttons, and a search filter textbox to filter by issue id, summary and severity.
· New Quick Outline for XML editors (Ctrl-O, Command-O). This shows the structure of the current file including icons and ids, and lets you filter and quickly jump to specific ids.
· The resource chooser now shows the resolved value for resources (e.g. when selecting @string/hello it displays that the resolved value is "Hello World"). It also allows editing the chosen value directly.
· The layout editor no longer assigns default ids to layouts, includes and merge tags. This tended to pollute the namespace with a lot of unused resources since layouts aren't usually manipulated via code, or referenced from XML. (The RelativeLayout editor automatically assigns ids to views without ids when pointing to them.)
· Export Screenshot from the Layout Editor
· Layout editor fix for SlidingDrawer which on some platforms could not be dragged into the layout. Also fix preview rendering for SlidingDrawer and TabHost (issue 23022).
· New default application icons, including an xhdpi version.
Important bug fixes:
· Fixed issues that could prevent layout rendering due to unresolvable resources (issues 21046 and 21051)
· Fix bug in resource chooser which made some types of framework resources impossible to select (issue 20589)
· Fix a bug in the formatter where a certain whitespace pattern could result in a non-space character getting deleted (issue 23940)
· Fix locale bug affecting Turkish locales in particular (issue 23747)
December 13th, 2011Dependencies:
· Eclipse Helios (Version 3.6) or higher is required for ADT 16.0.0.
· ADT 16.0.0 is designed for use with SDK Tools r16. If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r16 into your SDK, use the Android SDK Manager to do so.
General improvements:
· Added Lint tools to detect common errors in Android projects
November 25th, 2011· The main new feature in ADT 16 is Lint, a static analysis tool which looks for bugs in your code.
· In addition, there are several important bug fixes, including a fix for the dreaded "wrong XML editor opens" bug where you would get the plain XML editor instead of the layout editor.
November 24th, 2011Dependencies:
· ADT 15.0.1 is designed for use with SDK Tools r15. If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r15 into your SDK, use the Android SDK and AVD Manager to do so.
Bug fixes:
· Fixed how source files are attached to library project .jar files.
· Fixed how the bin/ folder for library projects are refreshed. This ensures that parent projects pick up changes in library projects.
· Fixed how a parent project's library container is updated when a library project is recompiled. This ensures that parent projects are recompiled when code in a library project changes.
· Fixed how res/ folders are checked in library projects. This ensures that all res folders are properly included even if Eclipse is not aware of them due to refresh issues.
· Fixed issue that prevented aapt from running when editing certain XML files.
· Fixed minor XML formatting issues.
November 3rd, 2011· This build fixes a few more user-reported errors, including issues around project clean and refresh, editing RelativeLayouts in the layout editor, and XML formatting of certain file types.
October 29th, 2011· Properly setup source attachment for library jar files.
· Force refresh the bin folder of libraries to make sure main projects pick up the changes.
· Force update the library container of parent projects when a library is recompile. This makes sure the parent projects are recompiled when a library code change.
· Fix how we check the library res folders exist. This ensures we pick up all the res folders even if Eclipse isn't aware of them due to refresh issues.
October 28th, 2011Dependencies:
· ADT 15.0.0 is designed for use with SDK Tools r15. If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r15 into your SDK, use the Android SDK and AVD Manager to do so.
Bug fixes:
· Fixed build issue when using Renderscript in projects that target API levels 11-13
· Fixed issue when creating projects from existing source code.
· Fixed issues in the SDK Manager
· Fixed scrolling issue in the new Logcat panel of DDMS.
October 19th, 2011Dependencies:
· ADT 14.0.0 is designed for use with SDK Tools r14. If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r14 into your SDK, use the Android SDK and AVD Manager to do so.
Build system:
· Changed default.properties to project.properties and build.properties to ant.properties. ADT automatically renames these files, if necessary, when you open a project in Eclipse.
· Changed how library projects are built in Eclipse.
· Changed output of javac from bin/ to bin/classes in Eclipse.
· Improved incremental builds so that resource compilation runs less frequently. Builds no longer run when you edit strings or layouts (unless you add a new id) and no longer run once for each library project.
· Introduced a "PNG crunch cache" that only runs on modified PNG files, instead of crunching all existing PNG files, all the time.
· Modified resource compilation so it no longer happens for normal save operations. It only happens when running or debugging (the build option that lets you disable the packaging step, which was introduced in ADT 12, is now on by default.)
General improvements:
· Added a Welcome Wizard to help with the initial setup of the Android development environment.
· Integrated the Android Asset Studio, which helps you create icons for things like the launcher, menus, and tabs.
· Revamped the Logcat view and added support to display and filter logs by application names as well as PIDs.
· Revamped the SDK Manager UI.
· Revamped the New Project and the New XML File wizards to have multiple pages. Sample projects are now copied into the workspace such that they can be modified and deleted without affecting the master copy.
· Removed the dependency on Eclipse GEF.
XML and Java editors:
· Added a new XML formatter that formats all XML files according to the standard Android coding style. The formatter can also reorder attributes to follow a recommended order and processes any changes made in the Layout editor.
· Added the "Go to Matching" (Ctrl-Shift-P) feature, which lets you jump between opening and closing tags in XML files. .
· Added a Quickfix for extracting Strings when the caret is inside a String.
· Improved "smart indent", which allows automatic indentation and un-indentation when pressing the Return key in XML editors.
Layout editor:
· Added tooltip feedback for dragging and resizing operations. For example, when dragging in a relative layout, the proposed constraints are shown. When resizing, the new dimensions are shown.
· Added the ability to suppress rendering fidelity warnings.
· Added "Remove Container" visual refactoring that removes the children of a container up to the top level and transfers namespace and layout attributes if necessary.
· Added pull-right menus to the context menu for accessing properties of the parents, which is useful when the children fully cover the parent and make it hard to select on their own.
· Improved access to properties in the context menu. The most frequently set attributes for each view are listed at the top of the menu. The Properties menu offers access to the most recently set attributes, attributes organized by their defining view, and layout attributes only or all attributes alphabetically.
July 16th, 2011Dependencies:
· ADT 12.0.0 is designed for use with SDK Tools r12. If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r12 into your SDK, use the Android SDK and AVD Manager to do so.
Visual Layout Editor:
· New RelativeLayout drop support with guideline suggestions for attachments and cycle prevention.
· Resize support in most layouts along with guideline snapping to the sizes dictated by wrap_content and match_parent. In LinearLayout, sizes are mapped to weights instead of pixel widths.
· Previews of drawables and colors in the resource chooser dialogs.
· Improved error messages and links for rendering errors including detection of misspelled class names.
Build system:
· A new option lets you disable the packaging step in the automatic builders. This improves performance when saving files by not performing a full build, which can take a long time for large projects. If the option is enabled, the APK is packaged when the application is deployed to a device or emulator or when the release APK is exported.
Bug fixes:
· Many bug fixes are part of this release
July 16th, 2011Dependencies:
· ADT 11.0.0 is designed for use with SDK Tools r11. If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r11 into your SDK, use the Android SDK and AVD Manager to do so.
Visual Refactoring:
· "Extract Style" feature pulls out style-related attributes from your layout and extracts them as a new style defined in styles.xml.
· "Wrap in Container" feature lets you select a group of views then surround them in a new layout (a new view group, such as a LinearLayout), and transfers namespace and layout parameters to the new parent (more info).
· "Change Layout" feature changes layouts from one type to another, and can also flatten a layout hierarchy.
· "Change Widget Type" feature changes the type of the selected views to a new type. Also, a new selection context menu in the visual layout editor makes it easy to select siblings as well as views anywhere in the layout that have the same type.
· "Extract as Include" feature finds identical collections of views in other layouts and offers to combine them into a single layout that you can then include in each layout.
· Quick Assistant in Eclipse can be invoked from the XML editor (with Ctrl-1) to apply any of the above refactorings (and Extract String) to the current selection.
Visual Layout Editor:
· This is the update to the layout editor you've been waiting for! It includes (almost) all the goodies demonstrated at Google I/O. Watch the video on YouTube.
· The palette now supports different configurations for supported widgets. That is, a single view is presented in various different configurations that you can drag into your layout. For example, there is a Text Fields palette category where you can drag an EditText widget in as a password field, an e-mail field, a phone field, or other types of text boxes. Similarly, TextView widgets are preconfigured with large, normal and small theme sizes, and LinearLayout elements are preconfigured in horizontal and vertical configurations.
· The palette supports custom views. You can pick up any custom implementations of the View class you've created in your project or from included libraries and drag them into your layout.
· Fragments are available in the palette for placement in your layout. In the tool, you can choose which layout to show rendered for a given fragment tag. Go to declaration works for fragment classes.
· The layout editor automatically applies a "zoom to fit" for newly opened files as well as on device size and orientation changes to ensure that large layouts are always fully visible unless you manually zoom in.
· You can drop in an element from the palette, which will pop up a layout chooser. When you select the layout to include, it is added with an . Similarly, dropping images or image buttons will pop up image resource choosers.
· The configuration chooser now applies the "Render Target" and "Locale" settings project wide, making it trivial to check the layouts for different languages or render targets without having to configure these individually for each layout.
· The layout editor is smarter about picking a default theme to render a layout with, consulting factors like theme registrations in the manifest, the SDK version, and other factors.
· The layout editor is smarter about picking a default configuration to render a layout with, defaulting to the currently visible configuration in the previous file. It also considers the SDK target to determine whether to default to a tablet or phone screen size.
· Basic focus support. The first text field dropped in a layout is assigned focus, and there are Request Focus and Clear Focus context menu items on text fields to change the focus.
XML editors:
· Code completion has been significantly improved. It now works with elements, completes dimensional units, sorts resource paths in values based on the attribute name, and more. There are also many fixes to handle text replacement.
· AAPT errors are handled better. They are now underlined for the relevant range in the editor, and a new quickfix makes it trivial to create missing resources.
· Code completion for drawable, animation and color XML files .
DDMS:
· "New Folder" action in the File Explorer.
· The screenshot dialog will add timestamps to the filenames and preserve the orientation on snapshot refresh.
General notes:
· TraceView supports zooming with the mouse-wheel in the timeline.
· The New Android Project wizard now supports Eclipse working sets.
May 11th, 2011Dependencies:
· ADT 10.0.1 is designed for use with SDK Tools r10. If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r10 into your SDK, use the Android SDK and AVD Manager to do so.
General notes:
· Temporary work-around to resolve the rare cases in which the layout editor will not open.
· Fix issue in which ADT 10.0.0 would install on Eclipse 3.4 and lower, even though ADT requires Eclipse 3.5 or higher (as of 10.0.0).
February 23rd, 2011Dependencies:
· ADT 10.0.0 is designed for use with SDK Tools r10. If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r10 into your SDK, use the Android SDK and AVD Manager to do so.
General notes:
· The tools now automatically generate Java Programming Language source files (in the gen/ directory) and bytecode (in the res/raw/ directory) from your .rs files.
· A Binary XML editor has been added
· Traceview is now integrated into the Eclipse UI
· The "Go To Declaration" feature for XML and .java files quickly show all the matches in the project and allows you jump to specific items such as string translations or onClick handlers.
· The Resource Chooser can create items such as dimensions, integers, ids, and booleans.
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Improvements to the Visual Layout Editor
· A new Palette with categories and rendering previews.
· A Layout Actions bar that provides quick access to common layout operations.
· When the Android 3.0 rendering library is selected, layouts render more like they do on devices. This includes rendering of status and title bars to more accurately reflect the actual screen space available to applications.
· Zoom improvements such as fit to view, persistent scale, and keyboard access.
· Further improvements to layouts, as well as layouts with gesture overlays.
· Improved rendering error diagnostics.
February 23rd, 2011Dependencies:
· ADT 9.0.0 is designed for use with SDK Tools r9. If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r9 into your SDK, use the Android SDK and AVD Manager to do so.
General notes:
· "Go To Declaration" hyperlink support: You can jump directly from code references (such as R.id.main) to the corresponding XML declaration, or from XML attributes (such as @string) to the corresponding resource definition, or from manifest XML registrations to activities and services.
· Improvements were made to name refactoring.
· AVDs now automatically save their state, so they can restart almost instantly. You can enable this feature when creating an AVD or by editing an AVD with the AVD Manager.
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Improvements to the Visual Layout Editor
· Support for rendering targets: You can now choose an arbitrary Android platform to render the current page, regardless of the project's minimum platform. This makes it easy to verify the layout and appearance of your activity on different versions of the platform.
· Improved support for empty and nested layouts: Dragging items over nested and invisible layouts automatically enlarges and highlights these layouts, so that they can receive drops.
· XML formatting improvements: The editor generates cleaner XML and you can now enable XML auto-formatting in the Preferences menu.
· Improved Outline labels: The Outline tab now displays additional information about each View. Textual Views display a snippet of the actual text. Views with a source (such as ImageView) displays the resource name. Included Views display the name of the View.
· When you right click a View in the Layout Editor, the context menu now contains Edit ID... and Edit Text... items. The Properties... context menus now list all of the properties and provide a way to edit them.
· The layout editor now properly handles and tags
· "Extract as Include" refactoring: The Layout Editor has a new refactoring that allows you to select one or more views in a layout, and extract it into a separate layout.
· Improved diagnostics for class loading and rendering errors: Class loading and rendering error messages are more useful and provide better information about the root cause of the error.
· Improved error handling to prevent drag and reordering operations from adding children into an AdapterView.
· Outline reordering: Reordering your views in the Outline tab is much easier
· Fix for keybinding bug where keyboard shortcuts did not work (Issues 13231 and 13134).
· Fix for problems with Custom layout attribute menu (Issue 13134).
· Automatic configuration for various view types: Certain views have properties configured by default. For example, the width of an EditText object is set to match_parent when added to a vertical LinearLayout or a default image is added to an ImageButton.
· Previews during dragging: Dragging from the palette or dragging within the layout editor now shows live previews of the dragged item.
· Navigation improvements: In the Layout Editor, double-clicking Views jumps to the corresponding XML element. In the Outline view, double-clicking opens the Properties view.
· The editor has Honeycomb style animation preview support.
· Improved rendering support for various Views (such as TabHosts and SlidingDrawers) in Honeycomb (Issues 3162 and 13092).
· Included layouts can be rendered and edited in the context of the layouts that include them. From a layout using an tag, double-clicking on the element edits the referenced layout in the context of the current layout. Additionally, when editing a layout that is included by other layouts, you can quickly change between context layouts, by right clicking in the editor and choosing Show included in.... This feature is only available in Honeycomb.
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This release fixes many other bugs, but the most important ones are listed below
· Fixed issue that prevented launching debug builds on productions devices when debuggable=true was not set in the Android manifest.
· The LogCat view in DDMS properly handles UTF-8 characters.
· The SDK Manager is more reliable on Windows.
· A JUnit initialization bug that prevented you from working with JUnit tests was fixed (Issue 12411)
February 23rd, 2011General notes:
· This is a quick follow-up to ADT 8.0.0 to fix some bugs.
· Fixes an issue in which projects failed to compile, citing a dex error.
· Better ProGuard error reporting when exporting applications for release.
December 6th, 2010Dependencies:
· ADT 8.0.0 is designed for use with SDK Tools r8. If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r8 into your SDK, use the Android SDK and AVD Manager to do so.
General notes:
· New version number scheme that follows the SDK Tools revision number. The major version number for your ADT plugin should now always match the revision number of your SDK Tools. For example, ADT 8.x is for SDK Tools r8.
· Support for true debug build. You no longer need to change the value of the debuggable attribute in the Android Manifest.
· Incremental builds automatically insert debuggable="true", but if you perform "export signed/unsigned application package", ADT does not insert it. If you manually set debuggable="true" in the manifest file, then release builds will actually create a debug build (it does not remove it if you placed it there).
· Automatic ProGuard support in release builds. For it to work, you need to have a proguard.config property in the default.properties file that points to a ProGuard config file.
Completely rewritten Visual Layout Editor. (This is still a work in progress.) Now includes:
· Full drag and drop from palette to layout for all Layout classes.
· Move widgets inside a Layout view, from one Layout view to another and from one layout file to another.
· Contextual menu with enum/flag type properties.
· New zoom controls.
· New HierarchyViewer plug-in integrated in Eclipse.
· Android launch configurations don't recompile the whole workspace on launch anymore.
· android.jar source and javadoc location can now be configured.
December 6th, 2010Dependencies:
· ADT 0.9.9 replaces ADT 0.9.8 and is designed for use with SDK Tools r7 and later. ADT 0.9.9 includes the ADT 0.9.8 features as well as an important bugfix, so we recommend that you upgrade as soon as possible. If you haven't already installed SDK Tools r7 into your SDK, use the Android SDK Manager to do so.
General notes:
· Fixes a problem in project import, in which source files were deleted in some cases.
· Includes all other ADT 0.9.8 features (see below).
December 6th, 2010General notes:
· Adds a new Action, "Rename Application Package", to the Android Tools contextual menu. The Action does a full application package refactoring.
· Adds support for library projects that don't have a source folder called src/. There is now support for any number of source folders, with no name restriction. They can even be in subfolder such as src/java. If you are already working with library projects created in ADT 0.9.7, see Migrating library projects to ADT 0.9.8 for important information about moving to the new ADT environment.
· Adds support for library projects that depend on other library projects.
· Adds support for additional resource qualifiers: car/desk, night/notnight and navexposed/navhidden.
· Adds more device screen types in the layout editor. All screen resolution/density combinations listed in the Supporting Multiple Screens are now available.
· Fixes problems with handling of library project names that contain characters that are incompatible with the Eclipse path variable. Now properly sets up the link between the main project and the library project.
May 21st, 2010Library projects:
· The ADT Plugin now supports the use of library projects during development, a capability that lets you store shared Android application code and resources in a separate development project. You can then reference the library project from other Android projects and, at build time, the tools compile the shared code and resources as part of the dependent applications. More information about this feature is available in the Developing in Eclipse with ADT document.
May 13th, 2010General Notes:
· Editing default.properties outside of Eclipse will now automatically update the project.
· Loads the SDK content only when a project requires it. This will make Eclipse use less resources when the SDK contains many versions of Android.
· Resolves potential deadlock between modal dialogs, when launching ADT the first time with the SDK Usage panel.
· Fixes issues with the New Project Wizard when selecting samples.
AVD/SDK Manager:
· Adds support for platform samples components.
· Improves support for dependency between components.
· AVDs now sorted by API level.
· The AVD creation dialog now enforces a minimum SD card size of 9MB.
· Prevents deletion of running AVDs.
DDMS:
· DDMS plug-in now contains the Allocation Tracker view.
· New action in the Logcat view: "Go to problem" lets you go directly from an exception trace output to the code.
Editors:
· Explode mode in the Visual Layout Editor adds a margin to all layout objects so that it's easier to see embedded or empty layouts.
· Outline mode in the Visual Layout Editor draws layout outline to make it easier to see layout objects.
· Several fixes in the configuration selector of the Visual Layout Editor.
Application launching:
· Applications launched from ADT now behave as if they were clicked from the Home screen.
· Fixes issue where add-on with no optional library would not show up as valid targets for application launches.
· Resolves possible crash when launching applications.
December 4th, 2009· AVD Launch dialog now shows scale value.
· Fixes potential NPE in SDK Manager on AVD launch, for older AVD with no skin name specified.
· Fixes XML validation issue in on older Java versions.
· .apk packaging now properly ignores vi swap files as well as hidden files.
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