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  <h2>See also</h2>
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    <li><a href="{@docRoot}tools/sdk/index.html">Downloading Android Studio</a></li>
    <li><a href="{@docRoot}tools/studio/index.html">Android Studio</a></li>
    <li><a href="{@docRoot}tools/eclipse/migrate-adt.html">Migrating to Android Studio</a></li>
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<p>The Android Developer Tools (ADT) plugin for Eclipse provides a professional-grade development
environment for building Android apps. It's a full Java IDE with advanced features to help you build,
test, debug, and package your Android apps. </p>

<p>Android developers are encouraged to <a href="{@docRoot}tools/eclipse/migrate-adt.html">migrate
to Android Studio</a> as the Eclipse ADT is no longer in active development.
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<p>The Android Studio build system replaces the Apache Ant build software used with Eclipse ADT
with an Android plugin for <em>Gradle</em>. <a href="http://www.gradle.org/">Gradle</a> is an
advanced build toolkit that manages dependencies and allows you to define custom build logic. Android
Studio also adds support for Maven-based build dependencies, build variants, advanced code
completion and refactoring. For more details about Android Studio, see the
<a href="{@docRoot}tools/studio/index.html">Android Studio</a> guide.

<p>If you still wish to get started with the ADT plugin,
<a href="{@docRoot}tools/eclipse/installing-adt.html">download and install the Eclipse ADT plugin.</a>
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