Hi All,
I had to take a quick break from working with Android Studio 1.0.2 to find
the right place to praise it. This seem to be that place.
Before taking the plunge from Eclipse, I did a lot of searching to compare
what others were saying about Android Studio.
Most of the chatter out there sounded like a bunch of Eclipse old-schoolers
pushing back against change. But most of the
criticism was fair albeit undoubtedly related to the immaturity (bugs and
missing functionality) of this new IDE in its earliest stages.
So I put off the dreaded thought of losing Eclipse until I saw this
statement on developer.android.com:
"Android Studio is the official IDE for Android application
development"
That pretty much did it for me... So from "Sorry Eclipse my old friend" to
struggling and frustrated in a strange new environment,
to WOW!!! took me about 2 weeks. I'm not full time nor am I an expert so I
find this "WOW" factor to be kind of hard to explain.
You can read about "what's new" all you want, and I definitely recommend
it. But most of that just scared me and left me wondering
what the hell is Gradle? All I can say is that *almost* every single thing
I do in Android Studio presents me with a pleasant surprise!
Note: I am not part of a development team so I can't speak to it's team
capabilities.
Some highlights from my perspective:
- Incredible code editing environment with so many tips, code completion,
suggestions, warnings, shortcuts etc!
- Different views available of your project structure which can flatten out
all those pesky density specific drawable and layout folders,
- Sweet GUI designer.
- Gradle makes external library dependencies a snap!
- Nice Maven repository integration/easy access to those external libraries.
- Nice version control integration.
- Built-in image viewer.
- No import/export of Android projects needed to move to another pc. Just
copy the folder here and paste it there! Walah all configurations
move with you. If the SDK is in a different location from pc to pc,
Android Studio prompts you with a fix on start up.
- Installation couldn't be easier.
- So many little improvements that it is literally impossible to explain.
See, already nothing but a futile attempt to convince.
My main objectives here though were to:
A) Encourage anyone who is afraid to take this plunge to jump as fast as
you can, it won't disappoint and especially...
B) Thank every one at Google and JetBrains for all their hard work on this
awesome new environment.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Ron
RonoliApps
http://ronoliapps.com
On Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 1:15:30 AM UTC-4, abhijit wrote:
>
> I just got surprised saw in android developer side that Google has
> launched a new IDE foe exclusively android.i just took an overview on
> developer site i just found it s similar to eclipse but the project
> structure is different because due to the switch to a Gradle-based build
> system.and everything is similar as it in eclipse.I didn't find any wow
> factor in it as compare to eclipse.Do you know please share us the
> information.
>
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