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> A lot people tell me Xcode is garbage, Eclipse is a nightmare Xcode is absolutely sits at the bottom of the IDE rankings, but Eclipse shouldn't even be a con
by orbitur 9y ago
> A lot people tell me Xcode is garbage, Eclipse is a nightmare
Xcode is absolutely sits at the bottom of the IDE rankings, but Eclipse shouldn't even be a concern for Android devs.
Android Studio is a very nice IDE and no Android dev should touch Eclipse ever again. It's a shame it's tied to the Android platform, honestly.
I'd kill to have Android Studio's functionality when developing for iOS. (And no, AppCode doesn't make the cut)
- kuschku 9y ago> It's a shame it's tied to the Android platform, honestly. It's not, it also supports Java, C++/C/ObjC, Go, Python, PHP, JS, and many more. Find the other Jetbrains IDEs at https://www.jetbrains.com/ https://www.jetbrains.com/
- pjmlp 9y agoAndroid Studio is a fork of InteliJ, you cannot use it as InteliJ, because the options are tailored for Android, If you use InteliJ with Android plugin instead, then you will always be behind the curve of the actual Android development, as JetBrains catches up.
- DiabloD3 9y agoHow is it a fork of a closed source product, and how is the developer of said closed source product behind the curve of their own product?
- kuschku 9y agoIntelliJ isn't closed source, it's on GitHub, under an open license. As are most of the premium IDE plugins from JetBrains.
- pjmlp 9y agoOnly the community edition code.
- kuschku 9y agoPlus 90% of the addons. Only a handful of them aren’t.
- pjmlp 9y agoSo how do you compile the add-ons that require the closed source part?
- kuschku 9y agoYou don’t, you don’t need them, and Android Studio doesn’t include them either. You can have all the features of Android Studio in all the languages I mentioned just with the open plugins.
- pjmlp 9y agoNo, because Google has changed the way wizards work, which means any plugin needs to be developed explicitly for Android Studio as well. As proof of this, the Flutter team just released a version of their plugins for Android Studio. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/flutter-dev/D6pvqM09y_c https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/flutter-dev/D6pvqM09... Android Studio also includes bits of CLion for example.
- kuschku 9y agoAre you deliberately trying to ignore what I’ve been saying? My argument was that you can take IntelliJ’s open edition, with its plugins for C++/C, etc, slightly modify it, and get the same functionality as you’d have in Android Studio for more languages than just Android.
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- pjmlp 9y agoEver heard about cooperation and developer agreements between companies?