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Eclipse (or Android Studio) is good for when you are getting your feet wet with Android. If you don't like using it there are alternatives. I usually use Emac
by Ologn 13y ago
Eclipse (or Android Studio) is good for when you are getting your feet wet with Android. If you don't like using it there are alternatives.
I usually use Emacs or vi. The only thing I miss when not using Eclipse with the ADT plugin is after typing say "LinearLayout ll;" with Eclipse I can type Control-Shift-O and the LinearLayout class is automatically imported in the code. I miss this, but I kind of have this in Emacs with JDE - a Control-C-V-Z has similar behavior. I could probably do some more tool work on Emacs and make it even more automatic.
I do everything with emacs, vi, ant, astyle, adb, and the Android commands "android" and "monitor". Some people do Android in IntelliJ, some in Netbeans. Some use Sublime Text.
If you think Eclipse with ADT is bad for Android development now, you should have seen Eclipse/ADT at the end of 2009. Just getting the ADT plugin to work with Eclipse was a nightmare. Having seen the improvement since then, I guess it all seems less bad to me. Although I don't use Eclipse when I do Android programming, generally.
- rmrfrmrf 13y agoI'm pretty sure the idea is to get more GUI-based, not less. Telling a designer to use vi instead of Eclipse for UI is pretty hilarious.
- burstmode 13y agoTelling anybody to use vi at all is pretty hilarious.
- Intermernet 13y agoI'm doing CoreOS based development at the moment and it only comes with vi. I've come across many other minimal linux environments where vi is the only option. It's worth learning, even if you only learn the basics.
- berrypicker 13y agoPerhaps you're already aware of Eclim, if not, check it out. Really useful for doing Android/Java in Vim.