Hi Guys, I didn't realize that Android Studio is the "official" IDE now. Do you know why they are moving away from Eclipse and ADT? There is a lot of infrastructure there...
I tried to use Android Studio awhile back (version 0.8.something) and never succeeded in getting a project to build. I kept getting Gradle errors and it would not work no matter what I tried. Since AS is the "official" IDE, I took a crack at getting the IOIO sources set up in it yesterday and once again, I failed miserably. I managed to get the base IOIOLib built in AS as a simple Java module (I refactored the Log class to remove the dependency on the classes in the target/android and target/pc folders), but I spent about 4 hours trying to make simple Android project (for IOIOLib_Android) that simply used the core IOIOLib project as a module and I could not make it work. From what I can see, to consume the library in source form, AS always "copies" the whole library source tree into the current project (this seems wrong), but even when I add the dependency on this embedded module, it would not work. It simply would not resolve the classes. I tried to revisit it this morning and figured I would start from scratch and import one of the basic samples (File > Import Sample...) and not even this works. The code that gets imported is immediately mangled by AS and gives Gradle errors that I could only resolve by manually editing the Gradle build files. This is the same nightmare I had the last time I tried to use AS. Frankly, it blows my mind that you would need to edit build files for the simplest of projects. Just do a Google search for "android studio external library dependency" and you'll see just how many people are having issues with this. Why is this so difficult? I can understand having the "power of Gradle" at your fingertips, but I can hack Ant files to do amazing things too if I want to. For me, Eclipse+ADT just works out of the box. Indeed, I had Eclipse building a sample with the latest code and was debugging (over wifi no less) in 20 minutes after giving up on AS this morning. I gave AS a *really* earnest try and lost an entire day trying to make the simplest of tasks work. Is this really a 1.0 release?? I'd be willing to help out here, but for the moment, I need to get some work done and I can't seem to do that in AS unless I just drop .JAR files in there, which is not what you are looking for. I'm going back to Eclipse for the moment, but if anyone has made any better progress than I have, I'd be happy to hear about it and lend a hand when I can fit it in. Regards, Mark. On Sunday, 21 December 2014 13:24:03 UTC-5, Ytai wrote: > > @Heikki, thanks, but I'm looking for deeper integration than building a > JAR. A JAR doesn't contain Android resources, manifest files etc., which > are important to reduce the amount of boilerplate the application that uses > them then needs to do. > > @Adam, AAR sounds like the right direction. I'll take you up on your > offer. Any chance you can send a draft pull request with some explanations > for a noob like me. > > @Al, I hear you. I will consider leaving both platforms supported, > although if I had to make a choice I would go for the officially supported > thing. Ideally, if all libraries are Maven targets the choice of IDE used > for app development becomes less critical. > > On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 12:14 AM, Al B <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: >> >> I'm not sure I follow the subject of this thread "Time to move IOIO to >> Android Studio". Does it mean that IOIO is planning to not longer support >> the Eclipse IDE? That will be sad. Come one? Not now that I can set my >> Luna environment to look like the Studio (see attachment). >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "ioio-users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ioio-users. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ioio-users" 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 http://groups.google.com/group/ioio-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
