I'm using Eclipse 3.5 and vim via eclim.
Eclim should probably be added as an option. Since it isn't quite one or the other.
Poll: Android developers, what IDE do you use?
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Re: Poll: Android developers, what IDE do you use?
#12For people choosing vi/vim, I'd love to hear about your environment/plugins/build process.
I use vim with eclim[1]. You have to have Eclipse open, headless if you choose, but you get most of the features of Eclipse right from vim.
Re: Poll: Android developers, what IDE do you use?
#13Same as div, used IntelliJ on all projects.
I used to use Eclipse before, but found the most frustrating thing about Eclipse is how often you'll encounter plug-in conflicts. (One plug-in doesn't want to work with another plug-in, but you just happen to want use both tools)
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#14As someone who is interested in Android, but is currently being scared off by Eclipse, does anyone know any good resources for developing for Android in something that isn't $BLOATED_JAVA_IDE? I tried vim, but the command-line builds were horribly slow, and almost all documentation and tutorials I found expected me to be using Eclipse.
I hadn't used a proper IDE in a decade or so and Eclipse was perfectly acceptable.
I really would recommend sticking with it for a while and then moving on to vim once you've got some experience in the process.
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#15Eclipse is fine once you have the memory configured right and you turn off all the dumb validations and unnecessary checking.
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#16Switched from Eclipse to Netbeans 7 dev. Eclipse does a better job at auto-completion for XML related stuff.
Re: Poll: Android developers, what IDE do you use?
#17Slightly unrelated, but why does everybody insist on calling it vi(m)? I have never seen a box that used vi in lieu of vim, it seems to be a historical artifact.
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#18Slightly unrelated, but why does everybody insist on calling it vi(m)? I have never seen a box that used vi in lieu of vim, it seems to be a historical artifact.
vi is still around, but it lacks the plugin architecture of vim. So it's highly doubtful that anyone would find it usable for writing code anyway.
Re: Poll: Android developers, what IDE do you use?
#19As someone who is interested in Android, but is currently being scared off by Eclipse, does anyone know any good resources for developing for Android in something that isn't $BLOATED_JAVA_IDE? I tried vim, but the command-line builds were horribly slow, and almost all documentation and tutorials I found expected me to be using Eclipse.
What's wrong with the popularity of Eclipse? Why is that bad?
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