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page.title=Tools
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<img src="{@docRoot}assets/images/android_wrench.png" alt="" align="right">
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<p>The Android SDK includes a variety of custom tools that help you develop mobile
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applications on the Android platform. The most important of these are the Android
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Emulator and the Android Development Tools plugin for Eclipse, but the SDK also
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includes a variety of other tools for debugging, packaging, and installing your
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applications on the emulator. </p>
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<dl>
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<dt><a href="adb.html">Android Debug Bridge</a></dt>
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<dd>A versatile tool lets you manage the state of an emulator instance
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or Android-powered device.</dd>
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<dt><a href="android.html">android</a></dt>
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<dd>Lets you manage AVDs, projects, and the installed components of the SDK.
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</dd>
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<dt><a href="bmgr.html">bmgr</a></dt>
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<dd>Lets you interact with the Backup Manager on Android devices
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supporting API Level 8 or greater. It provides commands to invoke backup and restore operations
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so that you don't need to repeatedly wipe data or take similar intrusive steps in order to test
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your application's backup agent. These commands are accessed via the adb shell.
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</dd>
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<dt><a href="dmtracedump.html">dmtracedump</a></dt>
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<dd>Generates graphical call-stack diagrams from trace log files.
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The tool uses the Graphviz Dot utility to create the graphical output, so you need to install
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Graphviz before running <code>dmtracedump</code>. For more information on using <code>dmtracedump</code>, see
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<a href="{@docRoot}guide/developing/debugging/debugging-tracing.html#dmtracedump">Profiling with
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Traceview and dmtracedump</a>
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</dd>
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<dt><a href="draw9patch.html">Draw 9-patch</a></dt>
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<dd>Allows you to easily create a {@link android.graphics.NinePatch} graphic using a WYSIWYG editor.
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It also previews stretched versions of the image, and highlights the area in which content is allowed.
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</dd>
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<dt><a href="emulator.html">Android Emulator</a></dt>
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<dd>A QEMU-based device-emulation tool that you can use to design,
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debug, and test your applications in an actual Android run-time environment. </dd>
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<dt><a href="hprof-conv.html">hprof-conv</a></dt>
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<dd>Converts the HPROF file that is generated by the Android SDK tools to a
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standard format so you can view the file in a profiling tool of your choice.</dd>
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<dt><a href="layoutopt.html">layoutopt</a></dt>
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<dd>Lets you quickly analyze your application's layouts in order to
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optimize them for efficiency.
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</dd>
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<dt><a href="mksdcard.html">logcat</a></dt>
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<dd>Lets you read system log messages that are output on an Android device or emulator.</dd>
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<dt><a href="mksdcard.html">mksdcard</a></dt>
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<dd>Helps you create a disk image that you can use with the emulator,
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to simulate the presence of an external storage card (such as an SD card).</dd>
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<dt><a href="monkey.html">Monkey</a></dt>
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<dd>Runs on your emulator or device and generates pseudo-random
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streams of user events such as clicks, touches, or gestures, as well as a number of system-level events.
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You can use the Monkey to stress-test applications that you are developing, in a random yet repeatable manner.</dd>
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<dt><a href="monkeyrunner_concepts.html">monkeyrunner</a></dt>
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<dd>Provides an API for writing programs that control an Android device
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or emulator from outside of Android code.</dd>
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<dt><a href="proguard.html">ProGuard</a></dt>
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<dd>Shrinks, optimizes, and obfuscates your code by removing unused code and renaming classes,
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fields, and methods with semantically obscure names.</dd>
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<dt><a href="sqlite3.html">sqlite3</a></dt>
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<dd>Lets you access the SQLite data files created and used by Android applications.</dd>
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<dt><a href="zipalign.html">zipalign</a></dt>
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<dd>Optimizes <code>.apk</code> files by ensuring that all uncompressed data starts
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with a particular alignment relative to the start of the file. This should always be used
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to align .apk files after they have been signed.</dd>
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</dl>
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