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what about android development?

by Gepser 13y ago

nezza-_- 13y ago
Android development now uses (or is in the progress of moving to) Android Studio, an IntelliJ based IDE.
joekrill 13y ago
I think the fact that they are moving to an IntelliJ-based IDE for Android Studio confirms how bad Eclipse really is.
- deleted 13y ago
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- sourabh86 13y ago
  I have tried several times to shift to android studio for development but everytime I have to come back to eclipse. Whatever I do, it just doesn't work, it always messes up something and code doesn't work (which works perfectly fine on Eclipse). What good an IDE is, if I can't compile a simple project on it.
darkchasma 13y ago
http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/android.html http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/android.html
- philliphaydon 13y ago
  I think you mean http://xamarin.com/studio http://xamarin.com/studio
  - darkchasma 13y ago
    A grand per year, no thanks.
pritambaral 13y ago
Intellij IDEA has an Android plugin, which is so good that Google adopted that as Android Studio, their officially supported Android development environment. Note that Android Studio isn't fully complete or comparable to Eclipse and Eclipse's ADT plugin yet, but it's quickly and steadily improving, thanks to Google.
yutyut 13y ago
Infant Android Studio is already better than grown-up Eclipse.
swanson 13y ago
If you plan to use the best-of-breed Android testing tools (namely Robolectric), Android Studio is not ready for serious use. Eclipse is not great, but at least everything works. I am optimist about the future of Android Studio (and the switch to Gradle), but if I were starting a new Android project today, I would still stick with Eclipse - you will avoid a lot of headaches and hacky workarounds. http://www.sep.com/sep-blog/2013/10/17/android-studio-not-ready-for-primetime/ http://www.sep.com/sep-blog/2013/10/17/android-studio-not-re...
Ologn 13y ago
When I first started looking at Android development, Eclipse's plugin system was so buggy it put me off Android development for a year or so. Eclipse has gotten a little better than how it used to be. I initially used it when doing Android programming. I eventually weened myself off it. The main reason was it was just too slow. Another reason is it has dozens if not hundreds of shortcuts, which I always seemed to be inadvertently tripping over. I would go from programming to undoing whatever change had just been inadvertently made, which sometimes was not easy. There are shortcut disable features, but then you face the array of option menus to deal with that. It was bad enough that I now just use ant, emacs, adb and the like to do everything. I have not launched Eclipse for months. The last thing left was getting the IDE to automatically stick in imports of packages used in the code, but some tweaking of emacs and JDEE have enough of that functionality so that my one remaining reason to use Eclipse is gone.

what about android development?

by Gepser 13y ago

what about android development?

nezza-_- 13y ago

Android development now uses (or is in the progress of moving to) Android Studio, an IntelliJ based IDE.

joekrill 13y ago

I think the fact that they are moving to an IntelliJ-based IDE for Android Studio confirms how bad Eclipse really is.

deleted 13y ago
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sourabh86 13y ago
I have tried several times to shift to android studio for development but everytime I have to come back to eclipse. Whatever I do, it just doesn't work, it always messes up something and code doesn't work (which works perfectly fine on Eclipse). What good an IDE is, if I can't compile a simple project on it.

darkchasma 13y ago

http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/android.html http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/android.html

philliphaydon 13y ago
I think you mean http://xamarin.com/studio http://xamarin.com/studio
- darkchasma 13y ago
  A grand per year, no thanks.

pritambaral 13y ago

Intellij IDEA has an Android plugin, which is so good that Google adopted that as Android Studio, their officially supported Android development environment. Note that Android Studio isn't fully complete or comparable to Eclipse and Eclipse's ADT plugin yet, but it's quickly and steadily improving, thanks to Google.

yutyut 13y ago

Infant Android Studio is already better than grown-up Eclipse.

swanson 13y ago

If you plan to use the best-of-breed Android testing tools (namely Robolectric), Android Studio is not ready for serious use. Eclipse is not great, but at least everything works. I am optimist about the future of Android Studio (and the switch to Gradle), but if I were starting a new Android project today, I would still stick with Eclipse - you will avoid a lot of headaches and hacky workarounds. http://www.sep.com/sep-blog/2013/10/17/android-studio-not-ready-for-primetime/ http://www.sep.com/sep-blog/2013/10/17/android-studio-not-re...

Ologn 13y ago

When I first started looking at Android development, Eclipse's plugin system was so buggy it put me off Android development for a year or so. Eclipse has gotten a little better than how it used to be. I initially used it when doing Android programming. I eventually weened myself off it. The main reason was it was just too slow. Another reason is it has dozens if not hundreds of shortcuts, which I always seemed to be inadvertently tripping over. I would go from programming to undoing whatever change had just been inadvertently made, which sometimes was not easy. There are shortcut disable features, but then you face the array of option menus to deal with that. It was bad enough that I now just use ant, emacs, adb and the like to do everything. I have not launched Eclipse for months. The last thing left was getting the IDE to automatically stick in imports of packages used in the code, but some tweaking of emacs and JDEE have enough of that functionality so that my one remaining reason to use Eclipse is gone.