http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/11/iphone-android-dev-env
With the increasing popularity of mobile applications, many people venture in publishing comparisons of the developer experience in each environment. About a year ago, David Green published a thorough review of both environments while John Blanco published last week a comparative analysis of the iPhone and Android Development Environments. Both Dave and John agree: "using Java is much better than Objective-C. Private methods, inner classes, anonymous classes, generics, better function syntax, and a much wider plethora of 3rd-party code are just a small smattering of the advantages of Java. It’s no contest." John and Dave disagree on Xcode vs Eclipse: [John] "I used to love Eclipse. I could master one IDE and get benefits for whatever work I do. It’s been over a year since I had to use Eclipse [...] and coming back has been… …a horrible experience… I don’t know how it happened. Eclipse is bloated, slow, and the simple act of changing editor contexts (XML vs. Java vs. Android Manifest, etc.) is mind-numbing. It takes seconds. [...] it’s making for a *miserable* experience doing Android work. Contrast this with XCode, XCode is a delight to work with. It’s sleek, lightning-fast, and I never see any slowdown when typing in code. I took XCode for granted for sure. XCode in a landslide." [Go to the link for the full article] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en.
