Android Development for Vim

Vim is a kickass text editor turned IDE (with the right plug-ins). Android is an awesome mobile operating system that's open and plainly rocks. Why not put these two together?

android.vim is a Vim plugin that allows you to build your Android application on the command line and within Vim. The plug-in is written purely in VimL for portability.

Requirements

NOTE: This plugin has ONLY been tested on a bleeding edge version of Vim 7.3 with --features=huge. Please report any problems you encounter with version information and compilation options included.

At the time of writing, there isn't any language dependencies but it does require on the following applications (they're checked for):

• Ant is used a lot to handle most of the building tasks. We ❤ you!

• Android SDK have to be not only on your system, but discoverable in your $PATH.

Installing

I recommending using Vundle to install plugins. The line necessary to add this plugin is as follows:

Bundle 'jalcine/android.vim'

Commands

All of the methods for the plug-in are defined with Android as the leading prefix. Check :help android-commands for information.

Options

Extensibility is what we love and one of the more popular philosophies out there. The following are a list of recommended options to be set after installing this plugin. Check :help android-options for more information.

Templating

In order to encourage quicker development, android.vim incorporates the ability to handle templating for projects. Check :help android-templating for more information.

License

This plugin is licensed under the MIT license. Make it work, people!

Author

I'm Jacky Alcine and I love code and chatting. Find me on Twitter or jalcine on Freenode!