Intel® Integrated Native Developer
Experience (INDE): IDE Integration
for Android*
1.5.8
Overview
IDE Integration for Android provides productivity-oriented design, coding, and debugging tools for applications targeting Android* on ARM* and Intel® architecture devices, including
smartphones and tablets. The tools are compatible with Android Studio*, Microsoft* Visual Studio* and Eclipse* and support popular Android SDKs including the Android Native Development Kit (NDK).
New Features
Added in 1.5.8
Visual Studio Plugins
o Android SDK Manager o AVD Manager
o LogCat monitoring (Device or emulator) o ADB Shell (connected device)
o Java language support (3rd Party) Visual Studio Templates
o Native Activity Project
Visual Studio Build System
o Support for GCC 4.9 (32 & 64 bit) o Support for Android SDK API 21 o Additional NDK C++ lib support
Android Studio Templates
o Native Activity Project
Separate Android SDK install for Android Studio
Android SDK with API 21 and Atom(32 & 64 bit) images preloaded for Visual Studio
Added in 1.5.7
Components
IDE Integration for Android provides the user the opportunity to select their favorite development environment components to install for native Android* development in an Eclipse*, Microsoft* Visual Studio* or Android Studio* IDE. Below is a list of tools that IDE Integration for Android may install.
Component Version
Android Studio* 1.0.1
Intel® INDE Plug-in for Android Studio* 1.2
Android ADT 23.0.2
Android SDK 21
Eclipse 4.2
Android NDK r10d
Intel® Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (Intel® HAXM) 1.1.1
Apache Ant* 1.9.4
Intel® INDE Plug-in for Eclipse* 1.2
Intel® INDE Plug-in for Visual Studio* 2012 & 2013 1.2
System Requirements Hardware:
Host: System with Intel® Core processor and Intel® microarchitecture code name
Sandy Bridge or later.
Device: Intel® architecture or ARM architecture Software:
JDK 1.7 64-Bit for Android Studio and Eclipse JDK 1.7 32-bit for Visual Studio*
Microsoft* .NET 4.5
Microsoft* Windows* 7, Microsoft Windows 8 or Microsoft Windows 8.1
Microsoft* Visual Studio* Community/Professional/Ultimate/Team 2012 or 2013
Contents
Depending on the installation options chosen, IDE Integration for Android will create the following directories and/or shortcuts:
<install-folder> C:\Intel\INDE\IDEintegration by default
<install-folder>\android-ndk-r10d Native Development Kit
<install-folder>\android-sdk-windows Android Software Development Kit
<install-folder>\ADT Android Development Tools
<install-folder>\Ant Ant build tool
<install-folder>\Docs License and Release Notes
<install-folder>\NDK Shortcut for Native Development Kit 64-bit host/32-bit
target
<install-folder>\NDK32 Native Development Kit 32-bit host/32-bit target
<install-folder>\SDK Shortcut for Android Software Development Kit
<install-folder>\android-studio Android Studio
General Notes
If you receive an "exceeds memory limit" while launching an AVD it is because the AVD's RAM Memory Option exceeds the Intel HAXM Memory Reservation set during install. You can decrease the AVD's RAM Memory option in the AVD configuration tool.
Uninstall can be found under the name “Intel® INDE IDE Integration for Android”
IDE Integration for Android has been validated to work with the Android NDK version r10d.
Android Studio Environment Notes
Two native project activity templates are included to help jump start native code projects. To create a new native project:
1. Create a New Project in Android Studio. Do not use underscores (_) in the
Application Name or Company Domain. Doing so will cause runtime errors.
2. Select Android C++ Native Activity Project or Android JNI Activity Project
Things to note about the native activity project templates
If these projects are absent from the activity selection window of the new project wizard, restart Android Studio. In some instances, Android Studio will not load the 3rd party wizards upon first launch of the application.
The Android JNI Activity Project support creates a simple java based project that calls a native library via the JNI layer. The native library is compiled with the Android NDK and linked into the application
The Android C++ Native Activity project demonstrates the NDK’s Native Activity project. The project’s main entry point is contained within the native library. This type of project is suited towards game development.
Eclipse Environment Notes
Users may see the following error when launching the Android Virtual Device Manager within Eclipse:
PANIC: Missing arch-specific emulator program:
/Applications/Intel/INDE/IDEIntegration/ADT/sdk//tools/emulator-x86_64
This issue can be resolved by launching the Android SDK Manager and updating the “Android SDK Tools” to the latest version.
To use Eclipse for x86_64 application targets, these workarounds need to be applied:
chooser dialog is only visible when an Android project is selected in the Package Explorer, Project Explorer, or Resource Navigator.
2. Run the Android SDK Manager and download the latest “Android SDK Tools” available.
Many issues with pre-installed Android Virtual devices not running can be resolved by using the Android Virtual Device Manager to create a virtual device that is tailored to the user development machine’s configuration.
Changing from default workspace requires manually setting up the path to the Android NDK. Use Window->Preferences->Android->NDK to manually set the path to the correct location.
If you modify your initial installation to point to a different ADT (through the ‘modify’ option of the installer), you will need to migrate your configuration files
(plugins/dropins, workspace settings, etc.) to the new ADT.
Creating a new project may also create an appcompat project. This is known to cause build issues. To work around them, either refresh the appcompat project to resolve the errors, or set the minimum API to 14 or greater to avoid creating the appcompat project. More information can be found at
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22256746/eclipse-adt-project-name-appcompat-v 7-being-created-after-creating-every-new.
When creating a new x86 Native Android project:
1. Ensure the desired minimum API level is installed using the SDK Manager 2. It is recommended that you set the Run -> Run Configuration -> Target to
automatically select the x86 emulator.
3. Select Run → Run As Android Application once to run it.
Visual Studio Environment Notes
If Microsoft Visual Studio Community/Professional/Ultimate/Team 2012 or 2013 is not found then the Visual Studio Development Environment will not be enabled as an install option.
1. Select File → New → Project.
2. Select Installed → Visual C++ → Android.
3. Select Android JNI Activity Project or Android C++ Native Activity Project
An Android JNI Activity Project or Android C++ Native Activity Project can be configured to compile for the ARM platform by doing the following:
1. Right-click the project name in the Solution Explorer, and choose Properties. 2. Click the General tab in the Property Pages window.
3. Choose the desired ARM toolset from the pull-down menu next to the Platform
Toolset property.
4. Choose the desired ARM architecture from the pull-down menu next to the
Target Architecture property.
5. Click Ok.
Visual Studio requires the use of the 32-bit JDK. In some cases, the following error may occur when compiling within Visual Studio:
Error: No suitable Java Found. In order to properly use the Android Developer…
This error is caused by the Android SDK expecting to find a 64-bit JDK on the client machine instead of the required 32-bit JDK. More information on this issue can be found here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3052743/android-create-call-fails-in-windows-7-mi ssing-jdk
A suitable workaround for this issue is to modify the detection scheme of the Android SDK by editing the %ANDROID_SDK_ROOT%\tools\find_java.bat
…..
set arch_ext=32 Add this line to find_java.bat
rem Check we have a valid Java.exe in the path. The return code will
rem be 0 if the command worked or 1 if the exec failed (program not found).
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('"%~dps0\find_java%arch_ext%.exe" -s') do set java_exe=%%a if not defined java_exe goto :CheckFailed
…..
1>AntBuild: 1> Envvar: JAVA_HOME is set to 'C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_21' 1> Envvar: JAVA_OPTS is set to '' 1> D:\Android\apache-ant-1.9.0\bin\ant.bat debug 1> The system cannot execute the specified program.
Install the x86 version of the Java JDK, and set your JAVA_HOME environment variable to the x86 version. The x86 version is installed into the Program Files or Program Files
(x86) directory, depending on the Windows version installed.
If you encounter this error:
Error <#> error : Could not create the Java Virtual Machine. c:\<Ant path>\ANTBUILD <Project Name>
Error <#> error : A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit. c:\<Ant path>\ANTBUILD <Project Name>
Set the '_JAVA_OPTIONS' environment variable to '-Xmx128M'
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