On setting Android development environment

My recent experience while installing development environment: relatively easy to install Android SDK, good documentation. and equally smooth to set up Eclipse environment. The only snag I faced was in an unexpected place. I wanted to play with an open source code from google code repository. Google code repository can only be accessed from Mercury or Git (CVS like code version control systems). That's where the fun began. There is relatively no documentation on how to download that code from within Eclipse. First, I installed a plugin for Mercury from within Eclipse by going to the Install New Software portion and providing a URL for where MercuryEclipse plugin can be downloaded from. Then I hit another roadblock. I still didn't know how to download the code from googlecode. Absolutely no documentation could be found about this, not even from Googlecode's help. The only recourse looked to be - reading up the entire Eclipse documentation. In search for a shorter route without doing a full blown research on how to use Eclipse, I discovered the "Import" button. On clicking that I discovered Mercury existed as an option besides CVS, and then on entering the URL for the Googlecode's project I was interested in, I was done!

T entire thing took me one day of hard work to set up - disappointing given that there are so many different software IDEs, version control systems, etc., now, however, there is so little literature on how to integrate across them all.