I spend my entire day in Visual Studio 2005 and 2008. I want to develop Android applications as well. I have taken a look at Eclipse. I am Windows, not Mac, and not Linux.
With that said ... Eclipse is not Visual Studio. They may both be IDEs but they are so different. I am looking for a step-by-step guide to gearing my Visual Studio environment for Android development. I know that this http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/other-ide.html talks about other IDEs. Lets be honest though, one of the largest communities of non-Java developers is probably the Visual Studio developers. Why not just recognize that and provide the necessary templates and steps to embrace this group, and kick the android market place into high gear. Anything is better that the i... world. Most of you may not remember, or even know the 70s and 80s. But Microsoft did it when they released Basic on the first PCs, and Borland did it again in the 80s when thye came out with the 29.95 Turbo Pascal. This is akin to the same thought ... Sure I can restructure my thinking, and learn yet another way to develop my applications, but in this day and age why should I. Since the the advent of the first GUI operating system I have been avidly waiting the developers panacea of point, click, drag and drop aplication development. We are not there yet, but everytime someone comes out with yet another IDE we seem to all sigh in relief while taking two steps backward in productivity. So, please, please, please ... provide a step by step visual guide (with templates) for Android Development in Visual Studio. Including, if necessary, steps for downloading and installing the various supporting stuff. I admit I'm spoiled by the VS development environment. I click on one EXE installation, answer a few simple questions, and in a few minutes my entire development environment is ready for me. I don't have to download this, then download that, and don't forget to get some of those, and a few of these. It is like the bad old days of Linux, when it would weeks to get the environment set up just right. However, don't breath on it because then Linux might think you installed something new and you would have to start all over again. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
