Chapter 7. ADT Eclipse Plug-ins

In this chapter, you will be presented with a new perspective of the available tool in the Yocto Project. This chapter marks the beginning of the introduction to various tools available in the Yocto Project ecosystem, tools that are very useful and different from the Poky reference system. In this chapter, a short presentation to the Application Development Environment (ADE) is presented with emphasis on the Eclipse project and the Yocto Project's added plug-ins. A number of the plug-ins are shown along with their configurations and use cases.

A broader view of the Application Development Toolkit (ADT) will also be shown to you. This project's main objective is to offer a software stack that is able to develop, compile, run, debug, and profile software applications. It tries to do this without requiring extra learning from the developer's point of view. Its learning curve is very low, taking into consideration the fact that Eclipse...