If you are familiar with the popular Eclipse IDE, you can use an Eclipse Yocto Plug-in to allow you to develop, deploy, and test your application all from within Eclipse. This chapter describes general workflow using the SDK and Eclipse and how to configure and set up Eclipse.
This chapter assumes development of applications on top of an image prepared using the Yocto Project. As such, inclusion of a pre-built image or the building of an image is included in the workflow.
The chapter also assumes development on a build host that is set up to use the Yocto Project. Realize that you can easily use Eclipse and the Yocto Project plug-in to develop an application for any number of images developed and tested on different machines.