Re:Android Apprenticeship
by Zigurd on Thursday February 27, 2014 @10:38PM
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One of my co-authors likes IDEA. After trying Android Studio, I have have to say... I'm not bowled over.
I could write a book full of Eclipse annoyances. I could build up a real hot hatred over it being a fraud of a GUI. The architecture is ridiculous and is the root cause of much of the UI suckage. But a lot of the sharp edges have been knocked off and the Android refactorings have become very impressive. I'll never love it. But I can use it.
NetBeans, IDEA, and VS used to all be markedly better. Now they are just maybe somewhat better. Yes it's a shame Google can't use NetBeans. But. Meh.
Back in the day, I even got a contract for writing a book on Visual J++ before Sun sued it out of existence in part because. at the time (what was it? 15 years ago?) I was pissed at how awful Sun's toolchain was and I thought they deserved to lose control of Java to Microsoft.
Now, I can't get too excited as long as code completion, debugging, and refactoring work smoothly.
I could write a book full of Eclipse annoyances. I could build up a real hot hatred over it being a fraud of a GUI. The architecture is ridiculous and is the root cause of much of the UI suckage. But a lot of the sharp edges have been knocked off and the Android refactorings have become very impressive. I'll never love it. But I can use it.
NetBeans, IDEA, and VS used to all be markedly better. Now they are just maybe somewhat better. Yes it's a shame Google can't use NetBeans. But. Meh.
Back in the day, I even got a contract for writing a book on Visual J++ before Sun sued it out of existence in part because. at the time (what was it? 15 years ago?) I was pissed at how awful Sun's toolchain was and I thought they deserved to lose control of Java to Microsoft.
Now, I can't get too excited as long as code completion, debugging, and refactoring work smoothly.