IDE for Android?

lancis

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For fucks sake, what was that?

Installed Official Android IDE, spent 2 days to get the proper packages, another day to find the 3 options I needed. Then an hour to write a very simple App that uses Google Maps.

The end result contains 3 lines of code and weights 6 MB, WTF?
This is on top of Eclipse + SDK that clutter 5GB of my Hard Drive.

Reminds me of Texas Instruments with their Code Composer Studio, which is passionately hated across the planet.
</rant>

What tools do you use to create Android apps?
 
I'm still using Eclipse. It's slower than Android Studio, but unless you are dealing with very large projects (or a computer from 2004) it's much more stable.
 
I am kind of a fan of Jetbrains products for IDEs. So the latest android studio which bundles Intellij looks great to me. Eclipse seems to be too bloated.
 
Also got that Android IDE.. it really damn sucks...
The problem is there aren't really any alternatives.
I wish there was a Visual Studio for Android / Java.
 
Also got that Android IDE.. it really damn sucks...
The problem is there aren't really any alternatives.
I wish there was a Visual Studio for Android / Java.

There is but you have to pay it's called Xamarin
 
There is but you have to pay it's called Xamarin

I stumbled upon Xamarin earlier, as it seems the developers do not like it much. Must be a reason?

I did find something good, however: http://www.mosync.com/ The "Hello World" app bought me right away:

Code:
#include <MAUtil/Moblet.h>
 
using namespace MAUtil;
 
class MyMoblet : public Moblet
{
public:
 
    MyMoblet()
    {
        maSetColor(0xFFFFFF),
        maDrawText(0, 32, "Hello World!");
        maUpdateScreen();
    }
 
    void keyPressEvent(int keyCode, int nativeCode)
    {
    if(keyCode == MAK_0 || keyCode == MAK_BACK || keyCode == MAK_SOFTRIGHT)
        {
            close();
        }
    }
    void keyReleaseEvent(int keyCode, int nativeCode)
    {
    }
};
 
extern "C" int MAMain()
{
    MyMoblet myMoblet;
    Moblet::run( &myMoblet );
    return 0;
};

Too bad the company went bankrupt the last year. :( They are open source thought, so luckily someone will pick up on that project.
 
I don't code in Java, but all my friends who as much as touch Java from time to time recommend one IDE.

Do you know Resharper, a must-have for Visual Studio if you code in C#?
Resharper creators (jetbrains) also made IDE for Java.
I can't post URLs so search for it - IntelliJ IDEA
 
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