I'm an Android total-noob but in the last few weeks I've installed the JDK/Eclipse/Android SDK on 2 PC's. Both installs took a day of tweaking and dealing with configuration problems and getting the different parts to play together, and generally were a PITA! On one PC I'm STILL dealing with random, sporadic instances of the "HelloAndroid] emulator-5554 disconnected! Cancelling 'com.example.helloandroid.HelloAndroid activity launch'!" problem that has been discussed here and on the Android Google group! No one seems to know for sure what causes it.
ALSO in the last few weeks I've installed Visual Studio 2010 on the same PC's to do my regular work as a Windows sw developer. On both PC's all I had to do was pop in the DVD, type in the product code, come back a few hours later and start coding!!
So my question is whether there is a commercial (i.e., $$) sw development environment for Android that installs and runs as easily as VS 2010 so I can focus my time on actual sw development and not on fighting with the development system. Thanks in advance.