I recently downloaded android SDK and it includes both android sdk and eclipse, so my question is that whether I need to download eclipse IDE from Eclipse - The Eclipse Foundation open source community website. or not ?
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I recently downloaded android SDK and it includes both android sdk and eclipse, so my question is that whether I need to download eclipse IDE from Eclipse - The Eclipse Foundation open source community website. or not ?
If you're able to start up the Eclipse IDE, no you don't. If that's not the case, then yes you should download it from the Eclipse website.
You can add/remove software packages to Eclipse at a later date inside the Eclipse IDE.
Enzom (February 4th, 2013)
Thanks for the heads up helloworld922, I really appreciate it coz I'm planning to download android sdk soon.
Here, i got my solution. Thanks "helloworld922" for giving such tips. Before this, i had the same question about Eclipse.
If you already have Eclipse, you don't need to download it again. The Android SDK can be added to an existing Eclipse installation.
I don't know what version of Eclipse is packaged with the Android SDK tools, though it can't really be more up-to-date than the version provided by Eclipse without using a developers build (which is in general a bad idea for production). At best, the Android SDK tools is as up-to-date. In any case, you can always configure Eclipse after it's been installed so a less up-to-date version can be updated.
louieseer (May 3rd, 2013)