Eclipse and Windows 7

niksbin · November 10th, 2009, 09:31 PM

Hi Everyone,

I am interested in creating an app for Android. I would prefer to use Eclipse with the Android 2.0 SDK as my development environment.

Preferrably, I would like to do this on Windows 7. Can you tell me if the above environment will work on Windows 7?

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Sincerely,
Nikhil

Yong · November 10th, 2009, 11:13 PM

It works. I just installed eclipse and the android sdk on win 7 and looked like everything set up correctly

noonehereyet · November 11th, 2009, 02:13 AM

not that im knocking your developing for 2.0 but keep in mind you should think about deving for the majority which at this point is still 1.5 / 1.6 .... so make sure you test all of them.......

niksbin · November 11th, 2009, 08:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by noonehereyet

keep in mind you should think about deving for the majority which at this point is still 1.5 / 1.6 .... so make sure you test all of them.......

Thanks to you both. I will be sure to check that (each version).

Thanks, again.

ShawnSullivan77 · November 11th, 2009, 02:00 PM

I ran into an issues getting my Android dev environment setup that you might want to be aware of.

I am running Window 7 64 so I installed Java for 64 bit. I was not able to get Eclipse working. So I uninstalled Java for 64 bit and installed Java for 32 bit and things were fine.

I don't know what the cause was and if anyone else has had the issue but I wanted to let people know.

galt · November 13th, 2009, 12:17 PM

That should not be true at all for Java. Did you have all the links (win7, eclipse, etc) pointed to the Java64 location, which loads to a different dorectory tree than 32 bit Java ?

I have not run eclipse yet, but I have another Java app that runs just fine once I told it where to find Java64.

ShawnSullivan77 · November 13th, 2009, 02:08 PM

I believe I had set the path correctly. It was running fine from the command line. The problem was with eclipse, it was giving me an error message when I would run it. I uninstalled 64 bit java and installed the 32 bit version of Java and set everything else up the same and it worked fine.