Introducing Android Studio

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Post by ishener » Wed, May 15, 2013, 4:32 PM UTC

Introducing Android Studio
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Re: Introducing Android Studio

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Post by untog » Wed, May 15, 2013, 4:41 PM UTC

This is huge. I've held out on Android development for many reasons, but my visceral hate for Eclipse is one of them. I know I've been able to use IntelliJ before now, but Eclipse was Google's example in tutorials, etc.

Now I'm very excited to make an Android app.

Re: Introducing Android Studio

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Post by mtgx » Wed, May 15, 2013, 4:44 PM UTC

This sounds great. Google should've built their own IDE for Android a long time ago. It even has live code updates, and it can show how the app looks on different form factors.

TC has a summary on it:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/15/google-launches-android-stu...

Re: Introducing Android Studio

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Post by ddw » Wed, May 15, 2013, 4:52 PM UTC

untog wrote: post #2

This is huge. I've held out on Android development for many reasons, but my visceral hate for Eclipse is one of them. I know I've been able to use IntelliJ before now, but Eclipse was Google's example in tutorials, etc. Now I'm very excited to make an Android app.

Same here. Can't wait to give this a shot.

Re: Introducing Android Studio

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Post by misnome » Wed, May 15, 2013, 4:53 PM UTC

This looks interesting. I've an iOS app for a local art group, and they've been bugging me for an android version. I'm going to take this as an opportunity to jump in.

Re: Introducing Android Studio

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Post by mullr » Wed, May 15, 2013, 4:54 PM UTC

Starting at about 35 min in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pmPa_KxsAM

Re: Introducing Android Studio

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Post by k3n » Wed, May 15, 2013, 4:54 PM UTC

untog wrote: post #2

This is huge. I've held out on Android development for many reasons, but my visceral hate for Eclipse is one of them. I know I've been able to use IntelliJ before now, but Eclipse was Google's example in tutorials, etc. Now I'm very excited to make an Android app.

I thought Google was pretty heavily invested in the Eclipse ecosystem, I think they use it quite a bit internally (at least from what I can gather). Perhaps those efforts were more in the interest of supporting the community of developers which use their API's, though.

I also hate Eclipse, even though I've tried my hardest to overlook its shortcomings. I'll leave it at that so as not to delve too far off-topic.

Re: Introducing Android Studio

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Post by jefflinwood » Wed, May 15, 2013, 5:00 PM UTC

The resource preview seems to be the best feature of the new Android Studio - the multi-device layout preview is already available in the latest version of the Android development tools for Eclipse, so I'm not sure why that was such a big announcement.

I'm a huge IntelliJ fan from my days doing server side Java, so I'm definitely looking forward to ditching Eclipse. I just hope it handles Android libraries better than IntelliJ used to.

Re: Introducing Android Studio

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Post by gtaylor » Wed, May 15, 2013, 5:01 PM UTC

I wonder if these guys are going to be asked to change the name of their app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kaushal.an...

Re: Introducing Android Studio

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Post by mullr » Wed, May 15, 2013, 5:02 PM UTC

mullr wrote: post #6

Starting at about 35 min in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pmPa_KxsAM

The killer feature that they showed is an integrated UI layout preview tool, in a pane alongside the editor. Click on a widget in the preview to select the element in your layout file. This is neat but fairly ordinary; the great part is that it can show multiple previews at once, for different device sizes. Or for different locales. These all appear to update very quickly, if not live, when you change your code.