It’s Been Real, Android: Why I’m Retiring from Android

Re:It’s Been Real, Android: Why I’m Retiring from Android by izacus on Thursday October 13, 2016 @08:35AM (#12700283)

You can open Android Studio, create a new project and "Go!". It'll work. Then you can add a single line of code to dependencies and you get even better APIs!

I also have no idea why are you mixing the device updates into the developer tooling argument. New apps are (should be - and the tutorials tell you so) developed with API 19+ in mind which means that you'll have to work for quite a while to get any problems with fragmentation and updates. You can even start development on API 21 and ditch support libraries all together and STILL not shed significant amount of userbase.

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Re:It’s Been Real, Android: Why I’m Retiring from Android by 27182818284 on Thursday October 13, 2016 @11:07AM (#12701208)

>You can open Android Studio, create a new project and "Go!". It'll work

I tried this after their 1.0 release and it crashed. Mileage varies from person to person

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Re:It’s Been Real, Android: Why I’m Retiring from Android by V-2 on Thursday October 13, 2016 @11:45AM (#12701513)

I believe you, but Android Studio has come a long way since.

I agree it was abysmal at first - when it didn't crash, every new update would break compatibility and your projects wouldn't build anymore etc.

Right now it's pretty decent, considering, although I'm not a fan of Gradle either.

By the way, even though it's a fork of IntelliJ Idea, it's ultimately shaped by Google which has sort of a tradition of realeasing alpha-stage software into the world. Remember first releases of Chrome? I do; they crashed like crazy and lacked basic functionality such as printing.

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