Friends, this has been a long journey... I'm pleased to announce the availability of an easier, better way to build Android and PC applications using the IOIO. This has been a long overdue on my side, having been left behind the evolving technology. Starting at the v5.05 release, which I have just pushed, the IOIO user workflow changes in the following ways:
1. No longer need to build the IOIOLib libraries from source yourselves. In fact, you don't even have to explicitly download them! They are now all available as Maven Central packages, ready to be referenced by your project. 2. The structure of the release bundle has changed. The only "important" thing left in it is the example apps. 3. Example apps are built using Gradle, which is considered the best-practice build tool for Android applications and Java applications in general. This would be how users will be encouraged to build their own applications going forward. 4. Android Studio is now the officially recommended IDE for both Android and PC. In fact, Android Studio support comes for free with Gradle support. *Eclipse is no longer supported*. Yeah, it can work if you insist, but I'm going to gently direct people complaining about Eclipse to Android Studio. Eclipse doesn't play as nicely with Gradle and Eclipse support for Android is slowly rotting. No point in spending time on that. I love Eclipse too, but Android Studio is a good tool and getting used to it should not be all that hard. More information here: https://github.com/ytai/ioio/wiki/Building-IOIO-Applications-With-Gradle I encourage people to give it a try and provide feedback. It is very likely that it will take a couple of iterations to get it completely streamlined. Simply download IOIO software bundle 5.05 <https://github.com/ytai/ioio/raw/master/release/software/App-IOIO0505.zip> and try to import one of the example apps into Android Studio and build it. Then try to modify it or create your own app from scratch. It should hopefully be a lot simpler than before :) Looking forward for your impressions, including feedback about the Wiki! Ytai -- 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.
