Setting up Android SDK with Netbeans or Visual Studio?

Question

I'd like to set up Android SDK with Netbeans or Visual Studio 2010. I am coming back to Windows programming after 3 months on Apple iMac (for iPhone programming).

Would somebody be able to explain how to set up the NetBeans environment so I can compile and test Android Apps directly form NetBeans.

I will be testing on a simulator, not a real device. My platform is Windows 7 Ultimate.

Thanks.

EDIT:

nbandroid is proving annoying to set up. It requires platforms. How do I install those? It seems I can't use Eclipse even if I wanted to. It can't find the Java VM DLL... Help with that is appreciated.

Answer 1

Googling 'android netbeans' comes up with quite a few hits.

Answer 2

You need to install the Android SDK and a NetBeans plugin called nbandroid. There are lots of instructions here.

I do recommend however using Eclipse because the plugin that you use on that is officially supported by Google, the Netbeans one is community developed I think, and a lot of the tools may be missing (like Allocation Tracker or Emulator controls. I don't know if they are in the netbeans plugin because I haven't used it but I'm guessing you wont have the full range of SDK tools available in the plugin).