How do I set up an Android development environment PURELY in Vim?

android vim installation environment
Js Lim picture Js Lim · Jan 7, 2012 · Viewed 21.3k times · Source

I was planning to try to learn Android, and I have totally no knowledge on Android development.

But Vim is my favorite editor, so I prefer Vim rather than Eclipse.

How do I set up this environment, and how do I run it (from beginning to the end)?

Currently in,

~/.vim/bundle/

I already got

- conque-shell
- nerdtree
- supertab
- command-t
- taglist
...etc.

these plugin. Are there other plugins that I should add in?

Answer

ᆼᆺᆼ picture ᆼᆺᆼ · Jan 7, 2012

You don't need any Vim plugins for Android development.

All you need is

  • Apache Ant for building the resulting app
  • A Java 5 compatible JDK
  • The Android SDK

Then you can use Vim to edit the AndroidManifest.xml, the layout.xmls, the Java source, the build.properties, the build.xml, and so on.

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