Saturday, August 13, 2011

Finally decided on Android IDE Geany and Gradle

I tried eclipse netbeans ideaJ and they all do nice things every now and then but they crash and take up lots of resources.
I finally kept coming back to Geany and now Gradle. I can edit all in Geany and do the building in the console. Then install to my wireless connected android and run it. Just about perfect.

2 comments:

  1. I feel geany is really smashing and do not want to install Eclipse for a foreseen very small usage.

    Can you post a more extentive description or point a link on how to develop for android with geany (for instance the «in the console» part.

    Thanks in advance.

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  2. I use the terminal in Geany and use "android create ..... " to generate a project.
    Then I use ant to build the apk
    i.e : "ant debug" to build the debug version
    "ant release" for release
    "ant installd or installr" to install app on connected device
    If I find some time I'll make a more complete presentation

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