Develop Android Apps on Your Android Device with AIDE

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AIDE is for all the developers out there who are still coding on their PC in a post PC era. Its an integrated development environment (IDE) that allows developers to write, compile and run android apps right on their android device. Writing an android app requires a separate system running on Eclipse or an alternative IDE, but now you can do it all on your device without leaving an android ecosystem. AIDE is a full featured app and more then a editor gives you the rich editor which offers advanced features like code completion, real-time error checking, code refactoring and smart code navigation as well as logcat debugging.

No doubt, you can turn your device into a development box on the go, but the scenario seems to be recommending working on a tablet which has keyboard attached in it. The app is said to be supported with existing Eclipse projects and best of all it is free. Knowingly or not the AIDE team has taken the first step to replace a workstation partially by developing a app like this after that no-one will be depend to write android app on their PC.

A brief summary of features…

Edit-compile-run cycle:
- Create a sample App with a single click
- Run your App with a single click
- No root access required
- Incremental compilation for fast build times
- Uses Eclipse .classpath project format for compatibility
- Integrated LogCat viewer

Real-time error checking:
- Real time error analyis throughout the whole project as you type
- Automatic Quick-Fixes for many errors

Refactoring:
- Rename
- Inline variable
- Introduce variable
- Extract method

Code:
- Code formatter
- Organize imports
- Out-comment code
- Create setters/getters/constructors from fields

Code navigation:
- Goto defintion
- Find usages
- Goto symbol
- Goto class

Editor:
- Very fast editor even with large files
- Code completion for Java and Android XML
- Android online help directly from the code
- Syntax highlighting for Java and XML
- Unlimited Undo/Redo
- Pinch zoom
- Smart expand selection
- Keyboard support with configurable keybindings
- UI optimized for small screens to show as much code/content as possible

Filebrowser:
- Built-in file manager with the most common features: Rename, delete, create file or folder

Download the app now for free and check out the video below.