Jonas Hungershausen

The Eclipse IDE was once heavily used for mobile app development on Android. The Android Development Tools (ADT) for Eclipse have since been deprecated and replaced by a dedicated Android Studio. To make mobile app development possible again, we leveraged the language server protocol to provide stable support for the Dart language and the Flutter SDK in the Eclipse IDE.

This talk will provide an overview of the Dartboard project including its Dart language support as well as the Flutter development experience.

We will show how to utilize the LSP adapter in the Eclipse IDE to extend it with a new language.

The language server protocol is a new technology to simplify the implementation of support for a new language in a client (editor or IDE). It is backed and developed by Microsoft and implemented in many different clients. Eclipse also supports the LSP and in this demo/talk we will demonstrate how to use it by implementing support for the dart language (which is used by the flutter project).