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As I recall from my distant Android app development, you could redeploy to your phone (connected via a USB cable) in seconds, and it was never a big hindrance.
by willvarfar 14y ago
As I recall from my distant Android app development, you could redeploy to your phone (connected via a USB cable) in seconds, and it was never a big hindrance.
You typically just have a 'cheat code' to take you to any level or whatever so you are never far play-wise from where you want to be debugging.
- ensmotko 14y agoYou are right. Deploying takes seconds + a bit more to get to the state you're testing. This isn't bad, it's actually quite amazing when you think about it. But compared to instant feedback, it's in a completely different ball park.
- zidar 14y agoOkay, but let's say you want to test a few looks. You tipically change back and forth and make small changes, so a few seconds for the redeploy, and mabe a few clicks here and there to get to where you want to be. That might take 10s each time. So testing if what looks nicer is is a matter of instant change and 10s per change and extra clicking all the time. I personally don't like repeating anything more than 5 times if it's not necesery. If the state that you're in is more coplicated, you might need to type something, log in and do some crazy stuff to get to where you're debuging, then you see how much more anoying that gets.