Version 0.10 is out

A new update is published and your feedback is welcomed. There are a few new things and changes

• A new plugin supporting displaying of data from logcat from Nyerel.
  
• Another patch by akochnev that adds support for recent version of Android SDK (r3 and r4)
  
• JDK 1.6 is now required as a JDK used to run NetBeans IDE. Modules will not install / disable themselves if you use older JDK.
• You will need NetBeans 6.7.1 or newer. I dropped support for 6.5 and if time permits this can simplify a few things in these plugins and make development easier.
  

Huge thanks for both contributions and I apologize for long delay before these were published. Of course any feedback or contributions are welcomed.

Enjoy it!

Development setup

After some quiet period of time I can make few more changes to NBAndroid. In the meantime I had to migrate to a new notebook. This is annoying but the benefit is updated How to Build page that tells you all the details how to develop in current IDE against the NetBeans 6.5 platform and be able to run existing tests.

There are many features that needs to be implemented to match the Eclipse plugin (see Xavier's slides from Eclipse Day at GooglePlex). If these hints will help people to hack their improvements like ADB logcat support it would be great.

Version 0.9 is out

The biggest change in this update is a new way how application is executed. You can either ask NetBeans to run main activity or to just deploy the application to a device. It will find the name of main activity so the input field for main activity in project customizer is gone. As a result we got rid of AndroidManifest.xml regenerating - one of the annoying problems reported in JIRA.

Happy coding.

NBAndroid 0.8 is out

Those few changes mentioned in previous post are now avaliable in a recently released version 0.8.

• You can see running devices in services tab.
• The plugin is now smarter when you execute the application and looks for suitable device. If it cannot find any it will ask you. This behavior is also customizable for your project.

The next step is to fix some oustanding bugs like overwriting of AndroidManifest.xml file. Generally the number of open bugs is decreasing and there will be a chance to implement new features.

Android SDK 1.5 has a new revision r3 and so far it seems compatible with the older version so the migration should be smooth.

Android devices in Services tab

Tomas Zezula commited a new set of changes. The most visible one is addition of Android devices node into Services tab. We now integrate Android's ddmlib that allows us to talk to Android debug bridge.

There are few more changes pending related to launching. After these are completed we will be able to access list of available Android Virtual Devices (AVDs) as well as to find connected devices. This is going to resolve problems with emulator starting and problems with more devices running/attached. Hopefully this will be done in next days and we will publish a module update to make these features available.

NBAndroid now works with NetBeans 6.5.1 again

I published another quick update of NBAndroid. Now it should resolve another blocker - people reported that they cannot create a platform. The common thing for all these reports was use of NetBeans 6.5. I missed that for a while and caught it thanks to bug report by gilad_no.

Actually there were two problems:

• I used some APIs from NetBeans 6.7 like FileUtil#getConfigRoot() (tagging it with since org.openide.filesystems 7.19 is not very helpfull - how can I guess when NetBeans version matches to this?)


• FileObject#getPath() returns absolute path prefixed with slash in NetBeans 6.7 but it returns relative path (without leading slash) in version 6.5. This completely broke our resolution of Android platforms. FileUtil.toFile(FileObject).getAbsolutePath() is used now to fix the problem.

My Hudson build is now updated to run tests using NetBeans 6.7 and 6.5.1 and final bits are produced as a clean build against the older one.

Welcome to NBAndroid

This is first announcement on this blog for the NBAndroid project - a set of NetBeans plugins to support Android application development. New version of these modules (0.5) is just published and brings one interesting bugfix. So far the biggest number of bug reports refers to [NBANDROID-17] - Can not compile project . This was a blocker for Windows user and it is fixed now.

Enjoy this update and send your feedback to a project site and/or file your bugs and enhancements
at bug tracker