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The Android website says – “We recommend the “Eclipse Classic” version. Otherwise, you should use a Java or RCP version of Eclipse.”
But the book “Hello Android” (3 edition) says Eclipse Classic is not enough. Get Eclipse for Java Developers instead.
I always use the official documentation. BUT, I want to know –
Which version of Eclipse is good for Android development and WHY (THE WHY IS IMPORTANT) ?
With Eclipse you get ADT plugin and other developer tools that are built for android. It’s also open source and you get lots of cool plugins to go with eclipse. Apart from that, there is really no reason to specifically recommend eclipse. It’s a good IDE but there are others too such as IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans etc.
It’s a matter of preference really. You can even skip all the IDE’s and go command line if you’re feeling like it 🙂
Among different versions of eclipse, there are many differences. Here is the comparision page from eclipse that details these differences:
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/compare.php
Eclipse for Java comes pre-included with EGit, MyLyn, XML tools etc which are useful in android development if plan to use them.