My Dev Environment

The first place any budding Android developer should visit is :

http://developer.android.com/index.html

I used the guides provides here to setup my development environment.  I choose to use Eclipse with the Android ADT plugin because of my familiarity with Eclipse.  I wanted to flatten the learning curve as much as possible.  Granted this is the only setup I've used so far as Android is concerned but I don't have any complaints and rather I've found the whole platform very intuitive and well designed.  Kudos to the Gods at Google.

I'm currently running Eclipse Classic 3.6.1, they call it Helios with JDK 1.6.0_23.

Once you have your Eclipse environment configured you can follow the instruction here to get the Android SDK installed  :

http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

and add the ADT plugin to Eclipse :

http://developer.android.com/sdk/eclipse-adt.html

It's as easy as that to get your Android dev environment up and running using Eclipse w/ADT plugin.