Is possible install Eclipse IDE in a Galaxy Tab?

Question

Since Eclipse can run in Linux and this tablet has the new Honeycomb (Linux Kernel), can Eclipse IDE run in Android Honeycomb ?

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Answer 1

Are you talking about actually running Java code with Eclipse APIs on the device? It's not impossible, but you will be doing most of the work yourself. The difficult part will be getting SWT to run and appear as native Android objects while supporting the full range of controls that Eclipse users expect.

There have been Eclipse projects in the past to get a workable subset of the APIs to run in an embedded space. One such project was eRCP, by IBM. I'm not aware of any activity to make a similar effort on Android, but there's no requirement to announce such work to the Eclipse community.