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This and multidex should make Android developers' lives a lot easier. I just hope Google fully supports these tools and irons out any issues that come up.
by markcerqueira 12y ago
This and multidex should make Android developers' lives a lot easier. I just hope Google fully supports these tools and irons out any issues that come up.
- bonsai80 12y agoGiven they they also produce a ton of Android apps, it seems like it's in their best interest to do this for themselves too.
- vidarh 12y agoGoogle has demonstrated time and time again that their developers are apparently willing to put up with a level of pain in terms of IDEs and build tools (and I'm tempted to complain about Java too) that gives me approximately zero confidence that their perception of what's best for them will coincide with making things easy.
- markcerqueira 12y agoI wonder. It seems like Google is more interested in building out on iOS these days. Personal story that I'm basing that statement on: when I was applying to Google, I had 2 years of Android experience and 2 years of iOS experience before that. I told them I was more comfortable with Android given it was the most recent platform I worked with. They still insisted on me applying as an iOS engineer. This obviously could be a supply issue; maybe they have plenty of Android engineers, but not enough iOS engineers?
- emilburzo 12y agoWhat exactly is going to be easier?
- tartuffe78 12y agoMultidexing allows developers to bypass the 65K method limit for Android applications. The new toolchain will hopefully decrease build times.