[ale] Beginning Android Coding

[DjPfulio]

Tried to get into Android development with a friend of mine a few years ago. He was developing on windows with Eclipse and I wanted to develop on Linux by mirroring his environment. After about a week of manually touching configuration files for Eclipse, I gave up.

Btw, I was a C / C++ developer and we mirrored environments across many different platforms all the time.
 
It's frustrating when a cross-platform tool like Eclipse for Java doesn't work that way.

Of course the other alternative is that I was just too stupid to figure it out. Definitely give me make and vim over any complicated IDE. Especially one is bloated as Eclipse.

 Looked at ant back in the mid nineties and realize that XML is not human readable.

IMHO.  

On 7 December 2015 12:55:47 GMT-05:00, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
>One of my biggest complaints about Eclipse is that nothing it does seem
>complete - we aue Maven as the build tool, and every few weeks there is
>something that I have to do on the command line to fix the eclipse
>environment.
>
>On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 11:10 AM, DjPfulio <DjPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:
>
>> Give me vim and a good makefile any day.
>>
>>
>> On 7 December 2015 09:59:28 GMT-05:00, Pete Hardie
><pete.hardie at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Eclipse is a maze of twisty little options, all alike.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Charles Shapiro
><hooterpincher at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've already created a simple Android app (
>>>> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.tomshiro.ada ).
>>>> Hey!  I even have 12 users out there!
>>>>
>>>> Much of the learning curve for me was actually dealing with
>Eclipse,
>>>> which is indeed a big honkin' IDE with lots of buttons, sliders,
>menus, et
>>>> cetera.
>>>>
>>>> -- CHS
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 8:15 AM, DJ-Pfulio <djpfulio at jdpfu.com>
>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Beginning Android Coding
>>>>> https://github.com/scruffyfox/AndroidCourse
>>>>>
>>>>> It has links to videos, slides, speaker notes and important links
>for 6
>>>>> lessons.
>>>>> Should be enough to create a simple Android app. Fun for everyone!
>>>>>
>>>>> I figured a few people might like to learn Android development
>instead
>>>>> of C or
>>>>> Linux administration over the holidays. ;)  The only warning is
>that
>>>>> Android
>>>>> development is usually performed in Eclipse, which is a fairly
>heavy
>>>>> Java-based
>>>>> IDE.   8+G of RAM is about the min for Eclipse, 16G would be
>nominal,
>>>>> IMHO.
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