Android development software

cormee

Hi, can anyone recommend good, free if possible, Android development tool, with cloud-based file/project sharing/sync. I'm currently using Visual Studio, with Xamarin at work, but looking for a cheaper option for a personal project. Thanks.

[Edit] this should probably be in the App development forum, sorry, could a moderator move it please?

Creamy Goodness

Android Studio for IDE — http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
GitHub for code hosting — https://github.com/pricing
Bitbucket if you really need to have the project private and don't want to pay anything — https://bitbucket.org/product/pricing

Buford T Justice

Alternatively you could eclipse and the android plugin, but they are ending the support for it.

punk_one82

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

Android Studio for IDE — http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
GitHub for code hosting — https://github.com/pricing
Bitbucket if you really need to have the project private and don't want to pay anything — https://bitbucket.org/product/pricing

I'd go with this. Android Studio and GitHub would probably be the most standard way to go about it. Android Studio also has GitHub integration so it's fairly seamless once set up and working.

cormee

punk_one82 wrote: »

I'd go with this. Android Studio and GitHub would probably be the most standard way to go about it. Android Studio also has GitHub integration so it's fairly seamless once set up and working.

It looks like the best option alright.

Has anyone developed for Android, using Visual Studio, with anything other than Xamarin? If so, what?

The Corinthian

cormee wrote: »

Has anyone developed for Android, using Visual Studio, with anything other than Xamarin? If so, what?

I have, but because I was coding in C# for Unity - better than the Mono IDE that comes with Unity, is all I'd say. Otherwise, if developing native code, you're better off with Android Studio as has been suggested.

dazberry

cormee wrote: »

It looks like the best option alright.

Has anyone developed for Android, using Visual Studio, with anything other than Xamarin? If so, what?

I've done a bit with RemObjects C# natively against Android. On one hand it's a bit strange writing C# code while not having the .net framework but then again it's nice being able to reference something like The Android Developers Cookbook and use those examples almost verbatim.

Not cheap, think it was $599 $499 for C# only on all platforms, site currently only lists "Elements" which is all 3 languages (C#, Swift and Oxygene (aka Pascal)) on all platforms. There is a Swift community edition that is free.

D.

//Edit: After some digging - single language $499