There is an interesting article in Linux Journal - http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/swap-your-laptop-ipad-linode. The author dumped his high powered/heavy laptop for an iPad and a basic linode account. He does all his development using vm, and all his files, compilers, etc. are on his Linode account (running some form of Linux). $5/month for full backups, so he never worries about loosing anything, even if his iPad walks off. He obviously can get email etc on his tablet, and claimed to be much happier carrying his tablet (always on, longer batter life, etc) than a laptop. Of course, you may have to use a slower vnc connection to test graphical layouts for your apps, but other than that, I don't see why you can't use this approach, and it may be cheaper than a more powerful laptop. Especially if you replace the iPad with an android tablet. ASUS makes a great android tablet with a dockable keyboard (TF 301?), which would be more compact to carry around than a tablet and a wireless keyboard as the author describes. You can also run Linux natively on that hardware, if you so choose.
Personally, I feel my productivity would be much less if I didn't use eclipse with all its bells and whistles. Let us know what you end up using! Mark On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Nobu Games <[email protected]> wrote: > I develop on a three-year-old notebook using Eclipse and Linux. Emulators > for any Android version higher than 2.2 are basically unusable on my > machine (I once made the experiment of starting up a Jelly Bean emulator. > The screen remained black after 15 minutes so I just killed the process). > For that reason I use VirtualBox and x86 Android images for testing higher > versions which works very well. > > Build time can get really slow depending on the complexity of the app > project. A clean build of an app with about 23 dependency projects takes up > to 7 minutes. > Do not use the latest version of Eclipse. It does not work. Especially in > combination with the ADT plugin a nightmare to use. > > If you really don't need the convenience of Eclipse for handling Java code > generation, auto-completion, refactoring etc. then just go for any editor > you like. But anyway, you should be fine even with Eclipse. And you still > can change your mind if it doesn't work for you. > > > On Sunday, December 2, 2012 1:51:14 PM UTC-6, Russell Wheeler wrote: >> >> So far I have been developing directly on my galaxy nexus and nexus 7 >> using the amazing AID app. >> >> However, as the N7 can't provide logs due to it being jelly bean, i feel >> the need to get a mini notebook in order to utilise adb logcat. >> >> My main worry is that something with only 1gb (2gb if i upgrade, which i >> will) and a 1.5-1.83GHz atom CPU won't be powerful enough. >> >> I can possibly get around certain worries by not using emulators and >> testing directly on my two devices, so that will save me a great deal. Also >> I am tempted to just use vim and command line tools instead of eclipse >> which again might save me from a slow PC. >> >> What do you guys think? Is the notebook way under powered? What if i just >> use vim and no emulators? >> >> Side note, does anyone actually code in vim/command line? >> >> Cheers >> >> Russ >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" 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-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" 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-developers?hl=en
