List of Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) for Android App Development

An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is allows an application (app) developer to perform the software development. Software development consists of to design, write (or code), compile, test, debug and package the app software.

For Android app development Google currently supports two IDEs (but read on for a list of alternative IDEs and languages):

1. Android Developer Tools (ADT) – http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
2. Android Studio – http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html (in beta)
   

List of Alternative Android App Development IDEs

Name	Language	URL
AIDE (Android IDE)	HTML5/C/C++	http://www.android-ide.com/
Application Craft	HTML5	http://www.applicationcraft.com/
Basic4Android	BASIC	http://www.basic4ppc.com/
Cordova	HTML5	https://cordova.apache.org/
Corona	Lua	http://coronalabs.com/
Intel XDK	HTML5	https://software.intel.com/en-us/html5/tools
IntelliJIDEA	Java	https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/android.html
Kivy	Python	http://kivy.org/#home
Lazarus IDE+free pascal+LAWM	Pascal	http://www.lazarus-ide.org/, http://www.freepascal.org/, LAWM
MIT App Inventor	Blocks	http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/
Monkey X	BASIC	http://www.monkeycoder.co.nz/
MonoGame	C#	http://www.monogame.net/
MoSync	HTML5/C/C++	http://www.mosync.com/
NS BASIC	BASIC	https://www.nsbasic.com/
PhoneGap	HTML5	http://phonegap.com/
RAD Studio XE	Object Pascal, C++	http://www.embarcadero.com/
RFO Basic	BASIC	http://laughton.com/basic/
RhoMobile Suite	Ruby	http://www.motorolasolutions.com/US-EN/Business+Product+and+Services/Software+and+Applications/RhoMobile+Suite
Telerik	HTML5	http://www.telerik.com/platform#overview
Titanium	JavaScript	http://www.appcelerator.com/titanium/titanium-sdk/
Xamarin	C#	http://xamarin.com/