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Android Studio 2.0 Is Google’s New, Improved Development Suite

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Re: Android Studio 2.0 Is Google’s New, Improved Development Suite

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Post by lallysingh »

ajford wrote: post #47
lallysingh wrote: post #43

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I usually use the command line for Android work, with emacs. But people demand IDEs these days. So here we are.

Any chance you feel up to sharing? I've been wanting to get into Android dev work, but I'm staunchly a CLI guy, and I've had a hard time trying to figure out the IDEs Google keeps pushing out. Not to mention the obscene sizes of these damn IDEs.

I don't have any tricks to share. Just build the app with the command-line tool, and the included android.el will do the debugging integration for you.

Re: Android Studio 2.0 Is Google’s New, Improved Development Suite

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Post by mixedCase »

saosebastiao wrote: post #32
eco wrote: post #19

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For several months XCode would just crash when I tried to run my application with debugging. It was eventually fixed by an XCode update. I think the only large platform owning company that has really succeeded with development tools is Microsoft. With Microsoft's newfound interest in cross platform development I'm looking forward to the day when I can just develop entirely in Visual Studio.

> With Microsoft's newfound interest in cross platform development I'm looking forward to the day when I can just develop entirely in Visual Studio. Agreed, VS is the best IDE out there by far. Still a shame that developing in VS implies developing on Windows.

How is it better than any of JetBrain's products?

Fairly limited without ReSharper, which makes it slow; language support is not particularly great; updates have made me lose half a day's producitvity (although that's par for the course for Windows); weird keybinds...

And of course: Windows-only, not open source and not free as in free beer either if you don't meet certain criteria.

Re: Android Studio 2.0 Is Google’s New, Improved Development Suite

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Post by warcher »

dkopi wrote: post #58
pjmlp wrote: post #22

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I doubt you have tried Android Studio support for NDK versus Eclipse CDT.

Your assumptions are incorrect, and rather offensive.

Uhh, have you?

Cause man, I'll tell you straight up, I despise Eclipse. To the marrow of my bones. But if you wanna do native debugging, they're it. Native debugging is very important when you're getting nasty (and if you're not getting nasty, for the love of god why would you use the NDK?!).

Re: Android Studio 2.0 Is Google’s New, Improved Development Suite

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Post by ojiikun »

ajford wrote: post #47
lallysingh wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I usually use the command line for Android work, with emacs. But people demand IDEs these days. So here we are.

Any chance you feel up to sharing? I've been wanting to get into Android dev work, but I'm staunchly a CLI guy, and I've had a hard time trying to figure out the IDEs Google keeps pushing out. Not to mention the obscene sizes of these damn IDEs.

most Android projects these days use gradle. install it via your favourite package manager, and if the project is well-configured a simple 'gradle build' will do the trick. at the worst you might need to download the latest Android SDK, point some environment vars, and do a basic fetch of the most recent build tools.

android is rather cli friendly - a full 50% of the devs I know use vim or emacs.

Re: Android Studio 2.0 Is Google’s New, Improved Development Suite

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Post by steaminghacker »

I switched to Studio 2.0 hoping for better NDK support over 1.5.

However, it appears to still require the experimental Gradle plug-in. Which, frankly, isn't very good.

I'm still building my native .so separately using NDK build. I don't get any native code debugging either.

Is there something obvious I'm missing?

Re: Android Studio 2.0 Is Google’s New, Improved Development Suite

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Post by mattezell »

Does anyone ever actually experience greater emulator performance under Windows? Each time an update is pushed, I am excited to always see "XX faster emulator" listed as an improvement - but never do I see a notable improvement... So far, the only usable "emulator" that I've found is actually virtualization using Xamarin's Android Player...

Re: Android Studio 2.0 Is Google’s New, Improved Development Suite

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Post by on_and_off »

ikurei wrote: post #36
eco wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For several months XCode would just crash when I tried to run my application with debugging. It was eventually fixed by an XCode update. I think the only large platform owning company that has really succeeded with development tools is Microsoft. With Microsoft's newfound interest in cross platform development I'm looking forward to the day when I can just develop entirely in Visual Studio.

Worked as a .net dev for ~3 years, and I loved VS, but it had its share of random problems too. I remember it flipping out and suddenly consuming a shitload of CPU and RAM for no apparent reason, even working on fairly small projects. It was nearly impossible to work with it until I switched to a more powerful PC. Is it really fair to say xCode is not a successful tool? A lot of people use it, and I don't hear enough…

some people are still using Eclipse...

however it is so baffling that in several conferences I have seen Googlers ask such persons to come forward and explain to them why they don't want to switch.

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