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OK, there is at least one, arguably more, PC based IDE for developing Android apps.

But now that Android based tablets are becoming common, what's a good IDE for developing Android apps - in Android?


Edit: I'd be more than happy to use Eclipse if it runs in Android ... or Netbeans, although that seems less likely?

Reason for the question is that I just acquired an Android slate & Want it to eat its own dog food.

+2  A: 

Eclipse plug-in is by far the best. Not really too many others. Certainly none at the moment (except simple text editors) actually on Android.

Lee Armstrong
Eclipse might be the best free option, but IntelliJ IDEA (Ultimate Edition) is more stable and seems to have less bugs (i.e. regarding project refresh, indicating build errors where there are none, etc.) than Eclipse, it's just not free. Worked with both, felt less pain with IDEA ;)
Mathias Lin
+4  A: 

Hi,

There are no Android development tools for Android made yet - the SDK is for Linux/Mac/Windows. There are no IDEs too that I know.

ognian
+2  A: 

I just read about this on some news site, so i don't have any experience using it. It is surely not a full-fledged IDE, but at least you could write apps for the android on the android.

Scripting Layer for Android

PHPForAndroid

slup
+! Thanks, I'll look into these
Mawg
+1  A: 

Eclipse is the 'official' IDE for developing Android applications, partly because Google themselves wrote the Android plugins and use it to develop their own apps. So of course it's well supported, stable, and includes excellent support for the emulator, building and debugging tools

I'd suggest you use it. It's really good!

Dave