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I'm also starting to learn Android. Being an Emacs user I tried android-mode, then Intellij IDEA and Eclipse. At the end I decided to settle on Intellij IDEA (J

by draven 14y ago

I'm also starting to learn Android. Being an Emacs user I tried android-mode, then Intellij IDEA and Eclipse. At the end I decided to settle on Intellij IDEA (Java is way more bearable with a good IDE.) Is there any drawback to not using the "official" google dev. environment (Eclipse+ADT)?

mahmud 14y ago
Emacs user here, Lisper, and Android developer. Don't fight it: learn Eclipse+ADT and Java, and yeah Emacs M-. is F4 in Eclipse ;-)
- bitwize 14y ago
  Getting Eclipse going was the real "fight". Using Emacs and the bare SDK tools works just fine for me, and is easy to do.
  - rrmm 14y ago
    I've always used emacs and the SDK as well. It seems to work ok, though I've never been one for IDEs. Eclipse felt too heavyweight on the netbook I use to code. (I still find it amusing that emacs is the light-weight solution).
cageface 14y ago
I haven't built any complex Android apps so far but I've found IntelliJ's Android support to be very good. The only thing I've really missed so far is the visual layout tool in Eclipse but IntelliJ does give you realtime previews of your layout so it's not too hard doing things in XML.