Android Development Tools

Google provides the Android Development Tools (ADT) to develop Android applications with Eclipse. ADT is a set of plug-in which extended the Eclipse IDE with Android development capabilities.

ADT contains all required functionality to create, compile, debug and deploy Android applications from the Eclipse IDE and from the command line. Other IDE\'s, e.g. IntellJ, are also reusing components of ADT. ADT also provides an Android device emulator, so that Android applications can be tested without a real Android phone.

The Android system uses a special virtual machine, i.e. the Dalvik Virtual Machine to run Java based applications. Dalvik uses special bytecode which is different from Java bytecode.

Therefore, you cannot run standard Java bytecode on Android.