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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="{@docRoot}sdk/eclipse-adt.html">Android Development Tools Plugin</a> (for the Eclipse IDE)</dt>
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<dd>The ADT plugin adds powerful extensions to the Eclipse integrated environment,
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making creating and debugging your Android applications easier and faster.</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="bmgr.html">bmgr</a></dt>
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<dd>A shell tool you can use to 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="layoutopt.html">layoutopt</a></dt>
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<dd>This tool 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="draw9patch.html">Draw 9-patch</a></dt>
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<dd>The Draw 9-patch tool allows you to easily create a
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{@link android.graphics.NinePatch} graphic using a WYSIWYG editor. It also previews stretched
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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="adb.html" >Android Debug Bridge</a> (adb)</dt>
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<dd>The adb tool lets you install your application's .apk files on an
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emulator or device and access the emulator or device from a command line.
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You can also use it to link a standard debugger to application code running
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on an Android emulator or device.
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<p>This is located in {@code <sdk>/platform-tools/}.</p></dd>
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<dt><a href="hprof-conv.html">hprof-conv</a></dt>
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<dd>A tool that 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="sqlite3.html">sqlite3</a></dt>
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<dd>Included as a convenience, this tool lets you access the SQLite data
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files created and used by Android applications.</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">UI/Application
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Exerciser Monkey</a></dt>
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<dd>A program that 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="android.html">android</a></dt>
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<dd>A script that lets you manage AVDs and generate <a
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href="http://ant.apache.org/" title="Ant">Ant</a> build files that
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you can use to compile your Android applications. </dd>
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<dt><a href="zipalign.html">zipalign</a></dt>
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<dd>An important .apk optimization tool. This tool ensures 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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