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Re:Goodbye to Eclipse – the end of an era as an Eclipse plug... by ryukafalz on Friday February 23, 2018 @06:11PM (#16450445)
Unfortunately, Google's fork (Android Studio) is not open source. Previous versions of Android Studio (based on Eclipse) were.

Clearest example I've seen in a long time of why copyleft licenses are important.

EDIT: I was wrong about this, see below thread.

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Re:Goodbye to Eclipse – the end of an era as an Eclipse plug... by noarchy on Friday February 23, 2018 @06:48PM (#16450638)
You can find instructions on both getting the source code, and building from source here: http://tools.android.com/build
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Re:Goodbye to Eclipse – the end of an era as an Eclipse plug... by ryukafalz on Friday February 23, 2018 @07:37PM (#16450874)
Ah! I stand corrected. I wasn't able to find a link to that info anywhere from the download page (https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html).

I was also confused before when browsing through Google's Android repos because they don't seem to do any development on the master branch: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/idea/+/maste... ...instead developing on project or release-specific branches: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/idea/+/studi...

I have to say, I'm glad to have been wrong!

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