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I also think Google should've developed their own IDE. They should control things like this. Heck, they should've bought Sun when they had the chance knowing th

I also think Google should've developed their own IDE. They should control things like this. Heck, they should've bought Sun when they had the chance knowing they are committed to Android. Maybe they still can if Oracle loses the trial with Google and finds out they can't make any real money on Java. But it might be best for Google to focus on the future. They might want to focus on building tools for something like NativeClient or Dart, and focus more and more on those in Android. Also, looking forward to the hardware-accelerated and improved version of the emulator, hopefully coming out in the same time with ICS this fall. Because if developing for Honeycomb's 1280x800 resolution was slow, I don't want to know how slow it would be developing for future 1920x1200 and 2560x1600 resolutions in the upcoming Kal-El tablets. They should also work with Eclipse or something, and make an IDE for ARM-based machines. The emulator would probably work even faster directly on ARM. It might be a year or 2 before we see quad core Cortex A15 machines or machines with Nvidia's ARM-based Project Denver, but we'll get there, so they should make development tools for ARM, too. They should focus on bringing serious productivity tools to Android, like IDE's and such, so people could really use an ARM Transformer like clamshell as their main computer in the future.

bad_user 15y ago
I also think Google should've developed their own IDE. They should control things like this. I think that would have been pointless, a total time waste and money down the drain. Eclipse may be bloated, but it is available right now and on all platforms too. It means that I don't have to buy a Mac to develop for Android, which in turn means that the barrier to entry is lower for me. It was also available from the get-go. Apple has spent years on improving XCode. Google just had to release a plugin. Apple spent years building a community of people around XCode. Google just inherited it. Btw, there are benefits to creating a Java-compatible ecosystem, one of them being that if you don't like Eclipse, you can always switch to IntelliJ IDEA.
- nextparadigms 15y ago
  I suppose you're right. That's why it's probably best to just look at the future, and create tools for HTML5/Dart/Native Client for Android, since those are lacking now anyway.

bad_user 15y ago

I also think Google should've developed their own IDE. They should control things like this. I think that would have been pointless, a total time waste and money down the drain. Eclipse may be bloated, but it is available right now and on all platforms too. It means that I don't have to buy a Mac to develop for Android, which in turn means that the barrier to entry is lower for me. It was also available from the get-go. Apple has spent years on improving XCode. Google just had to release a plugin. Apple spent years building a community of people around XCode. Google just inherited it. Btw, there are benefits to creating a Java-compatible ecosystem, one of them being that if you don't like Eclipse, you can always switch to IntelliJ IDEA.

nextparadigms 15y ago
I suppose you're right. That's why it's probably best to just look at the future, and create tools for HTML5/Dart/Native Client for Android, since those are lacking now anyway.