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Try android studio. It is based on InteliJ - I find it much more pleasurable than Eclipse. It also under very rapid development and has vim style plugin. Altho

Try android studio. It is based on InteliJ - I find it much more pleasurable than Eclipse. It also under very rapid development and has vim style plugin. Although still IDE I think you will find it better than Eclipse.

pat2man 13y ago
Android Studio is amazing. Easy to install and get running and its a great IDE. I can't imagine going back to Eclipse or a regular editor.
gcb0 13y ago
I tried. my experience: 1. download version 1.0 2. create hellow world 3. close it. 4. open, get notification for 1.1. install it. 5. IDE complain that my hellow world program is bogus. 6. i can't open or import it. so, yeah, bad first impression. disclaimer, i have some rather complexes projects with android, none using Eclipse or IDE. vim and the android cli stuff. So, not a clueles beginer clicking away on the IDE, but maybe the oposite, maybe i tried to mess up with the details more than the IDE was confortable with
- biafra 13y ago
  There is no Version 1.0 of Android Studio. The newest version is 0.2.2. What did you install?
  - gcb0 13y ago
    Replace 1.0 and 1.1 with whatever actual versions it was first announced and the subsequent update two or three days later.
    - venomsnake 13y ago
      I would say it has moved great deal from there. And even if it is not good enough yet keep an eye on it - the pace of improvement is incredible from what I see. (only hobbyist android development here)
jordanthoms 13y ago
I've been switching from Eclipse to intellij/ android studio recently - the difference is amazing. It's so much faster (like way faster), and still far more powerful, and even looks nicer. A few things are a bit harder to find, but that's just because I've been using eclipse for longer. Now they just need to add NDK support and I'll be able to switch to it full-time :)

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Try android studio. It is based on InteliJ - I find it much more pleasurable than Eclipse. It also under very rapid development and has vim style plugin. Altho

by venomsnake 13y ago

pat2man 13y ago
Android Studio is amazing. Easy to install and get running and its a great IDE. I can't imagine going back to Eclipse or a regular editor.
gcb0 13y ago
I tried. my experience: 1. download version 1.0 2. create hellow world 3. close it. 4. open, get notification for 1.1. install it. 5. IDE complain that my hellow world program is bogus. 6. i can't open or import it. so, yeah, bad first impression. disclaimer, i have some rather complexes projects with android, none using Eclipse or IDE. vim and the android cli stuff. So, not a clueles beginer clicking away on the IDE, but maybe the oposite, maybe i tried to mess up with the details more than the IDE was confortable with
- biafra 13y ago
  There is no Version 1.0 of Android Studio. The newest version is 0.2.2. What did you install?
  - gcb0 13y ago
    Replace 1.0 and 1.1 with whatever actual versions it was first announced and the subsequent update two or three days later.
    - venomsnake 13y ago
      I would say it has moved great deal from there. And even if it is not good enough yet keep an eye on it - the pace of improvement is incredible from what I see. (only hobbyist android development here)
jordanthoms 13y ago
I've been switching from Eclipse to intellij/ android studio recently - the difference is amazing. It's so much faster (like way faster), and still far more powerful, and even looks nicer. A few things are a bit harder to find, but that's just because I've been using eclipse for longer. Now they just need to add NDK support and I'll be able to switch to it full-time :)