Android Studio

admin

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Has anyone got familiar with Android Studio? I`ve been playing around it today as I would live to delve into Android app development.

Android Studio is the official IDE for Android application development, based on IntelliJ IDEA. On top of the capabilities you expect from IntelliJ, Android Studio

It certainly takes some getting used too, It took roughly an hour just install it and configure it. I had some issues with HAMX for running the android device emulators.

Today I have mainly been playing around with Webview, i`m sure as the day`s pass I will learn more. So expect an Android app for Gigarank from me in the coming weeks possibly months.

I have no intention of learning swift and xcode for IOS.
 

GigaGreg

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I think that this is one of the best things to use to learn Android. I wanted to do the same and learn some android coding to develop apps for android.

It would be very hard to make good apps, maybe tutorials? The coding is so hard for apps.
I have created very simple app for Gigarank with cPanel and Forum links as testing, making a proper app would take a lot of the time, but I would be happy to see one.
 

zoood

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I prefer Eclipse instead of Android Studio, it is very buggy and really slow in any his function.
I know that Eclipse is really heavy but Android Studio is worst
Anyway it is updated frequentely and this is really a good thing :p
 

Yozora

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@"DJB" No, but I'd love to hear what you think of it, and more about your experiences learning about it! I'll probably try it out myself at some point, after I finish learning some more coding languages, and it would be interesting to hear what it's like. I already want to make at least an icon set sometime, just for myself, since none of the ones I've found have exactly what I'm looking for.
 

admin

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Honestly, its like using dreamweaver for the first time with smaller icons. Still discovering the icons and shortcuts.

You would fall asleep reading the tutorials, probably better getting hands on and learning by trial and error.
 

Yozora

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LOL, that many icons, huh?
Yeah hands on is probably the best way to go. Especially since I can just send whatever I make to my Android devices and go wild testing it. :D
Keep us updated on how things are going!
 

LiveWire

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Android Studio consumes too much memory. I tried running it on a 3GB Linux system but it hangs frequently. I'd try Eclipse with ADT.
 

Geoservices

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I dabble a bit on Android Dev (aka a bunch of Googling)
I actually signed up for an account here so my app can talk to the servers...if I sort out this 'hey I'm totally not a robot or anything' block. :p

Waiting for my verification so I can access dat CPanel...



GigaGreg said:
It would be very hard to make good apps, maybe tutorials? The coding is so hard for apps.
Agreed, making apps isn't easy...No proper tutorials out there for how I learn =/

I have created very simple app for Gigarank with cPanel and Forum links as testing, making a proper app would take a lot of the time, but I would be happy to see one.
Oh! Can we see? Maybe put it on github for us to help you out?


Yozora said:
@"DJB" No, but I'd love to hear what you think of it, and more about your experiences learning about it! I'll probably try it out myself at some point, after I finish learning some more coding languages, and it would be interesting to hear what it's like. I already want to make at least an icon set sometime, just for myself, since none of the ones I've found have exactly what I'm looking for.
If you're still interested in making an icon pack, check this guy out
It's not pretty but it's a start =D
 

dominik1231

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DJB said:
Has anyone got familiar with Android Studio? I`ve been playing around it today as I would live to delve into Android app development.

Android Studio is the official IDE for Android application development, based on IntelliJ IDEA. On top of the capabilities you expect from IntelliJ, Android Studio

It certainly takes some getting used too, It took roughly an hour just install it and configure it. I had some issues with HAMX for running the android device emulators.

Today I have mainly been playing around with Webview, i`m sure as the day`s pass I will learn more. So expect an Android app for Gigarank from me in the coming weeks possibly months.

I have no intention of learning swift and xcode for IOS.

Android studio is the best IDE
 

jacknorthrup

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[font=Lucida\ Sans\ Unicode,Lucida\ Grande,sans-serif]I worked with Android Studio[/font]
Personally I worked with Android Studio to start and found that most of my time was spent waiting with depleted resources. I have no fear of working non-GUI with command line and found that running Gradel alone or using Ionic Cordova to be be much faster and much less strain of the resources.

I also use ADB and Android Emulator to test the apks. Everything can be done quite easily by command line. Bash scripts can even be generated to make the job easier for repetitive tasks. Might be worth checking out when I checked Android Studio vs Ionic Cordova they are pretty balanced in opinions.