On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Shubham Das <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been developing on eclipse since a while.Now since the Android studio > is the official I.D.E. for android development I shifted to Android studio. > I know that every thing has pros and cons, but to be completely honest -I > had the worst programming experience i ever had in my life. > Being a little dramatic, aren't we? > The biggest issues I had with A.S. were- > It is laggy and buggy on windows(I have 8GB ram,i7 processor and i did > increase the max memory usage for A.S). > I use AS on a Windows machine with similar specs - it runs fine. > Android SDK manager is not really a manager if you use A.S. > What does that even mean? > Code auto-suggest is awful. > Awful? Awful how? I found AS auto-complete leaps and bounds beyond Eclipse. > If you work with App engine,welcome to hell. > I agree, but I think that's due to App Engine, not AS. > A.S. is not even able to download appengine-java-sdk successfully.Even if > you download it manually good luck setting it up in your project. > If you want to transfer a huge android project on which you've been > working for a year and which also have a connected appengine project,better > kill yourself. > And I thought you were being dramatic before. > A.S is so hyped all over developer's community,its like they want to make > it successful just by using the hype on the community rather then working > to make it better. > Yeah, you're right, it's all hype. It's not like they've been steadily and consistently improving the product for the last few years. Nope, all hype. It's quite amazing at how many apps can be built on hype and sheer will alone! > Android Developers what were you guys thinking making it the official > I.D.E. for android development. > Watch the youtube video of the AS announcement, if you can find it. They explain their rationale. The summary being "Eclipse kinda sucks". > All this is ok, but why take away eclipse adt and gpe while A.S is still > not ready. > Maybe because it is ready, given that they hit 1.0 over a year ago. AS is not perfect by any means but your rant is pointless. If you haven't killed yourself already and have something actually constructive to provide to the AS team, you can do so here with clear, objective details about the issues you're having, not useless subjective ranting about the tool: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/entry?template=Tools%20feature%20request https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/entry?template=Tools%20bug%20report ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/android-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/android-developers/CANCScgivtsfBtoi%3DMn1w%3DnDO1-e2o6pzV%2B%3D_wXXxVz6kgJ2Pkg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
