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I have noted that in my computer Android and Eclipse are very slow. I agree that my computer has not very much memory but I was wondering is there any lightweight version of the emulator and is there some lighter IDE than Eclipse which supports Android development and Android debugger?

+1  A: 

you can code in any text editor or java ide. The Android SDK supports command line compiling. Using eclipse is just the easiest way to do so.

Patrick Cornelissen
+2  A: 

is there any lightweight version of the emulator

No.

is there some lighter IDE than Eclipse which supports Android development and Android debugger

Short answer: no. But, you can use the android tools to set up a project, use any plain text editor to edit java sources and use ant to compile everything and adb to install to the emulator.

See http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/other-ide.html

Felix
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You could lessen the load on you computer by avoiding the emulator and instead run you development applications on an Android device.

Rene