Well I guess it didn’t took that long before some great developer came out with the idea of creating an Android plugin for the NetBeans IDE. I just downloaded the plugin and installed it on my NetBeans 6.0 setup.

They’ve basically created two plugins — one to register the Android platform under NetBeans and the other to be able to create an Android project. It’s work in progress so feel free to try it out.

What you get is being able to create NetBeans project containing applications for the Anroid platform. All the usual features of the IDE e.g. Smart Code Completion, Refactoring, Hints, etc. work. You can run the applications in the emulator and you can also debug these applications the same way you debug standard Java apps. The plugings should work on Linux, Mac and Windows. If you just want to see how it looks like please visit the Screenshots Section.

We literally did this work before a trip to the pub; it’s not finished, polished, supported and the like – this was an experiment born out of curiosity and enthusiasm more than anything else. We don’t know how much time we’ll be able to devote to the maintenance of the project in the future.

Thanks to Roumen’s blog for the info. Great work Brunhilde and Trudi over at undroid.nolimit.cz and we hope to see more (after the beer of course ).

I’ve managed to get it working enough to output the “Hello Android from NetBeans” on the Android Emulator here’s a screen shot of the output:

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