What IDEs to use.

nicol

Hi,

I have an idea for a very simple app that I want to develop to cut my teeth in mobile app development. I will develop for Android initially and then onto iOS if I'm happy with the app.

What I need now is advice on what IDEs people are using to develop their apps at the moment.

Thanks in advance.

BTW: Would this be a useful sticky for the forum, might save time for people like me.

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Android - Eclipse/Android Studio
iOS - xcode

nicol

Cheers,

will give those a go.

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Android - Eclipse/Android Studio
iOS - xcode

onemorechance

I have tried to use Android Studio on two occasions and both times I gave up. I will wait until it's at version 1.x before trying it again.

I would consider it for layout design as it has a view where it will render the layout in multiple devices at once (need a decent spec machine or patience).

However, even getting Google maps to work with it proved a pain.

For me, Eclipse is my preference for Android dev. IntelliJ (which Android Studio is based on) is the preferred option for many, but I am used to Eclipse and it does what I need. I also recently started to use Eclipse on Linux, and it seems to be less of a pain than on Windows.

Opinicus

IntelliJ all the way! The autocomplete/intellisense and code inspection is brilliant. It seems to know what I want to write before I do.

Fluffy88

I'm used to Eclipse and it never gives me any problems.

The ADT plugin for Eclipse supports displaying multiple layouts that onemorechance mentioned IntelliJ has, so it's not really a reason to choose it over Eclipse.

It's really down the personal choice and preference.
Eclipse has been around the block and there is a lot of information online about it. There is lots of plugins to do almost anything. But it can be slow, sometimes.

Android Studio was only released at the last I/O so it's possible that Android will be pushing towards using it as the platform of the future so if you've no experience with either it might be a good option to go for it.

onemorechance

Fluffy88 wrote: »

I'm used to Eclipse and it never gives me any problems.

The ADT plugin for Eclipse supports displaying multiple layouts that onemorechance mentioned IntelliJ has, so it's not really a reason to choose it over Eclipse.

It's really down the personal choice and preference.
Eclipse has been around the block and there is a lot of information online about it. There is lots of plugins to do almost anything. But it can be slow, sometimes.

Android Studio was only released at the last I/O so it's possible that Android will be pushing towards using it as the platform of the future so if you've no experience with either it might be a good option to go for it.

It's one layout at a time with ADT though? There is a view in Android Studio which allows you see see a layout on several devices at once; I think Eclipse only allows you to see one device at a time?

Fluffy88

No you can do multiple at once, there is a check box to switch it on.
And I find it's not too slow either.

onemorechance

Excellent! Never saw this! Thanks!

Fluffy88

No prob :-)