|
It does rather put you off Android development, doesn't it?
We are spoiled, it seems...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
|
|
|
|
|
I think it seems to be one of those projects that's got too big for its boots.
I think the new google IDE might be better - but it means you have to write in Java !
Rock and Hard Place
PooperPig - Coming Soon
|
|
|
|
|
I dumped eclipse and switched to the new Android Studio. Far more productive even as a beta product.
|
|
|
|
|
But unfortunately for Java and not C++
PooperPig - Coming Soon
|
|
|
|
|
_Maxxx_ wrote: Wow - makes me appreciate VS2010 - and that's saying something! And notepad as well.
THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?!
-- C++ FQA Lite
|
|
|
|
|
|
Notepad++ is great for writing Java which can then be compiled using the command line.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
|
|
|
|
|
_Maxxx_ wrote: Wow - makes me appreciate VS2010 - and that's saying something!
Great summary. That's been my exact experience.
|
|
|
|
|
It is a rare beast is it not?
Especially the project configuration. It wouldn't be so bad, but it has to handle so many chip architecture!
|
|
|
|
|
Eclipse? Are you being seduced by the dark side?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
|
|
|
|
|
I'm not sure 'seduced' is the right word. more like 'gang-raped'
PooperPig - Coming Soon
|
|
|
|
|
If this is the first time you've used it, you should feel blessed that you've never had to use it before.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
Eclipse does do a few things that VS doesn't do but it's still not worth the effort.
As I grow older I've found that pleasing everyone is impossible but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.
|
|
|
|
|
Well, i does crash with different error messages, that's for sure!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
|
|
|
|
|
As much as I am anti MS at times (use the XAML editor in VS for 5 mins to see why), overall as an IDE, VS is a really nice product. I may have to use plug-ins to get the functionality some others provide out of the box, but overall it just feels "cleaner" than most IDEs.
Jeremy Falcon
|
|
|
|
|
Yeah Eclipse is really bad, always has been and still seems to be judging by my run in with the Android developer toolkit which is based on it. Its concept of 'workspace' is just bizarre and confuses me.
I recommend IntelliJ's IDEA, I've used that in anger at work and it has a lot of really good stuff. It's where a lot of what is in Resharper comes from.
|
|
|
|
|
"Its concept of 'workspace' is just bizarre and confuses me."
I can live with the weird project concept.
What I don't understand is how so many people can be fanboys for an editor that doesn't even properly support "undo"
It's mess, there is no way to know what will actually be undone (or what was actually undone for that matter.) Did you click on another part of the UI after that typing mistake? Don't worry we'll just use the global undo stack and undo your last refactoring instead of the typing error. Did that refactor include creating a new file (that you edited?) No problem we'll throw that away too...
|
|
|
|
|
Too bad that IntelliJ Idea is not allowed as a part of contest. Even free community edition is better than that I'm biased I admit, used to work with Idea for about 10 years
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. T.Jefferson
|
|
|
|
|
Why do you say it's not allowed - I haven't noticed anything about that?
PooperPig - Coming Soon
|
|
|
|
|
As far as I see in contest description:
Quote: Article 2 - Setting Up Your Android Development Environment
Comparison of the new Android Studio vs. Eclipse IDEs
I thought that assumes using of the above IDEs
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. T.Jefferson
|
|
|
|
|
I think those are guidelines as opposed to rules
PooperPig - Coming Soon
|
|
|
|
|
I use VS2012/13 with Resharper (and a few other plugins) most of the time - although XCode is okay (probably good, if you'd never used VS), it's still a bit of culture shock each time I go back to it.
At the moment VS seems to be Microsoft's best product (that I know of, at least) - I'm quite excited about what's coming up in VS14 .
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
|
|
|
|
|
LOL, same here!
I thought I wanted to get into Android development until I installed Eclipse and actually started doing it. Going from VS to Eclipse is like going from driving a nice Toyota to driving an old Geo Metro. Really makes you appreciate the Toyota
|
|
|
|
|
Lots of agreement here....apart from me.
Don't get me wrong: the best debugger I have ever seen is Visual Studio's.
But as an editor and general development environment I haven't seen anything better, and cool that it is cross platform.
What I would say though is that one or two of the aspects that I use regularly (e.g. code reformat) have started to get a bit buggy). Also, I would say that, like Libre/OpenOffice, the configuration system can be a bit impenetrable. It's really hard to find things, especially if you don't know what they call it in Eclipse lingo.
Only the other day, I was trying to add a system macro in a C++ project. All the addition buttons were greyed out. It took me ages to find that you have to add them to a "user-defined" plugin. From an architectural point of view, I can see why it is like that, but it just wasn't clear to me at the time.
In summary, there is a steep learning curve, but I love it to bits.
My particular preferred environment is Eclipse for project management, edit and general source exploration; for debug VS blows Eclipse into the wind at least on the Microsoft platform and for build I use a platform independent build framework in the console. It sounds convoluted, but I actually like it.
|
|
|
|
|
Gack. Unfortunately, I'm and embedded developer that works with TI DSPs. A few years ago, TI switch from a VC6 style IDE to Eclipse. I've never seen such a pig before. I've gotten to the point where after the base project is setup through Eclipse, I switch to using 'make' to do my builds and jEdit for my editing purposes. The only thing I then use Eclipse for is for the debugger. My employer has finally given me access to some of the Parasoft tools so I'll probably spend a little more time in Eclipse, if only for the static analysis tools.
Eclipse problems and complaints:
1) Slow, slow, slow and slow. I can walk down to the kitchen, buy a soda and get back to my desk before Eclipse is done loading.
2) If I have a failure with an update, ~80% of the time Eclipse will no longer start. I'll end up having to reinstall the whole environment. (Don't know if this is an Eclipse problem or a TI problem)
3) Why the hell would I want to see every file in the source directory in my project tree. Let me specify the files that are in the project.
I have more than just 3 complaints but over all, I like the old style IDE much better than the Eclipse version. The only obvious advantage to using Eclipse is that I could also be using it in linux.
|
|
|
|