Re:Fuchsia OS Introduction
by neop1x on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @05:34AM
(#19499248)
I tried to start android development couple of times and it was impossible for me.
The last time I created a new project from the Android Studio built-in template, it was broken from the start - UI editor throwing an error, googling didn't help, I didn't have so much time to debug it so gave up again. I expected built-in template to always work.
I hate java, I always hated that tree of subdirectories. What worse, there are some Maven repos and some proprieters Gradle binary which is randomly downloaded to my pc like a malware. Why is that? It is very difficult to configure the project, so many XMLs, documentation is not very good, build process takes a long time. Android studio is slow and takes much RAM as any java-based IDE.
Rename a project? Near impossible. You have to be a guru to know all the places where to change it, rename directories, etc.
In comparison, it is very straightforward to develop for iOS. It is possible to integrate C/C++ easily. Normal gdb/lldb. Cocoa UI is nice, nice frameworks with reasonable documentation. The only problem is the closed platform, requirement to pay for Development program, signing all binaries.
The last time I created a new project from the Android Studio built-in template, it was broken from the start - UI editor throwing an error, googling didn't help, I didn't have so much time to debug it so gave up again. I expected built-in template to always work.
I hate java, I always hated that tree of subdirectories. What worse, there are some Maven repos and some proprieters Gradle binary which is randomly downloaded to my pc like a malware. Why is that? It is very difficult to configure the project, so many XMLs, documentation is not very good, build process takes a long time. Android studio is slow and takes much RAM as any java-based IDE.
Rename a project? Near impossible. You have to be a guru to know all the places where to change it, rename directories, etc.
In comparison, it is very straightforward to develop for iOS. It is possible to integrate C/C++ easily. Normal gdb/lldb. Cocoa UI is nice, nice frameworks with reasonable documentation. The only problem is the closed platform, requirement to pay for Development program, signing all binaries.