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I port my iOS App to Android, Android Studio, Gradle and Maven dependencies management are the best things for any Android dev ever. Gradle build scripts and c

I port my iOS App to Android, Android Studio, Gradle and Maven dependencies management are the best things for any Android dev ever. Gradle build scripts and configuration are totally awesome. Dependencies management just work. Basically, if you're using Eclipse and Ant for a new Android app, you're doing it very wrong.

edwinnathaniel 12y ago
Ant is... well let's just say if you're using Ant you're doing it wrong ;) (or that's a very-old-legacy-stuff)
- snambi 12y ago
  Old doesn't mean it is bad. Still ant is so much faster than gradle and maven.
  - vorg 12y ago
    Yes, speed matters for builds if you need to rebuild and retest after every source edit. And despite Gradle finally upgrading to Groovy 2, it still uses the ancient Antlr 2 based grammar which is even more ancient than Ant.
pjmlp 12y ago
> Basically, if you're using Eclipse and Ant for a new Android app, you're doing it very wrong. Until they fix the performance problems I will keep using Eclipse, even though I am not a big fan of it.
- pjmlp 12y ago
  To those that downvoted me this was discussed at Google IO.
  - dimillian 12y ago
    What performance problem? Android Studio is like, 2 times faster than Eclipse. If you talk about gradle build, yeah it kinda slow, but I'm ok with that.
kachnuv_ocasek 12y ago
Recently, I had to write some code for an Android app (in Java, of course) and Gradle was the most pleasant thing about all of it. I think Android Studio would have perhaps surpassed it, had I used it more.