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Re:Android Development Tips For iOS Devs by krschultz on Thursday March 13, 2014 @07:20PM (#7395848)
After you setup the provisioning profiles correctly, get the build schemes right, etc etc. Oh and don't forget to send Apple your tax id!

I would highly recommend using Android Studio + Gradle over Eclipse. IntelliJ is a significantly better tool for writing and refactoring code than XCode. Some of the tight integrations between XCode and the phone are superior (especially around profiling), but overall I think IntelliJ is a much stronger tool. Even something as simple as doing layout is vastly better on Android. There is no choice between 'in code or in Interface Builder'. XML + the viewer in Android Studio is the best of both worlds.

I also think Relative Layouts accomplish 99% of what auto layout accomplishes in a much friendlier manner.

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Re:Android Development Tips For iOS Devs by stefan_kendall3 on Thursday March 13, 2014 @09:06PM (#7396321)
I didn't have to do any of that. Xcode creates provisioning profiles for you, and appcode created the schemes I needed. I think Xcode does a decent job as well.

And you only need a tax ID if you're trying to imminently release a paid application or an app with IAP. But we're discussing development, not release.

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