Eclipse "intellisense"

Intellisense is actually a Microsoft term for autocompletion functionality in Visual Studio while writing code.  However, Eclipse offers the same feature for Java and Android development.  It's called method selection helper or something like that.  Anyway, it pops up automatically by default but disappears after you select something or type over what it suggests.  To get it back, just use the shortcut key combination of ctrl-space.

Initial Setup of Android Developer Tools (ADT) and Eclipse

I downloaded ADT from Google which comes with Eclipse.  However, when I tried to run Eclipse for the first time, I got a nasty little error about not finding the JRE.  JRE stands for Java Runtime Environment, and as far as I can tell, it must be the equivalent of the .net framework.  I went into Control Panel and uninstalled anything in there that said Java.  Then I put Java JRE into Google and downloaded Java JRE 7 for Windows 64 bit from an Oracle website.  Once I installed it, I found the files in the Program Files\Java\jre7 folder.  I copied this into the AndroidSDK folder where the eclipse.exe file is.  I then renamed it from jre7 to just jre and voila, it worked.  The nasty error message did say where it was looking for the jre, so thats how I knew where to put the files.

What a start.  Hopefully, everything about android development isn't this weird.