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Android Build a Simple Android App (retired 2014) Getting Started with Android Android Setup and the Crystal Ball Project

Lyubomyr Ostapiv
Lyubomyr Ostapiv
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Posted by Lyubomyr Ostapiv
Lyubomyr Ostapiv
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Eclipse vs Android Studio

Can I use Android Studio instead of Eclipse at Android development track ? All programmers in my company use it.
or it's going to be hard to comprehend ?

5 Answers

Holger Liesegang
Holger Liesegang
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Holger Liesegang
Holger Liesegang
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I'm doing the Android Track at this very moment with Android Studio and didn't find any unsolvable problems so far. As Android Studio is the future imho it makes more sense to use that. Also there have been greater changes regarding Eclipse since the appearance of the Android Tracks as you might already have noticed and thus using Eclipse would need some extra work as well :)

Calvin Nix
Calvin Nix
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Calvin Nix
Calvin Nix
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Android Studio is definitely way better than Eclipse. I did the Android Track using Studio as well.

Holger Liesegang
Holger Liesegang
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Holger Liesegang
Holger Liesegang
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Calvin Nix BTW I never got a response from you regarding the (payed) Joomla job for one of the biggest charity organizations in the world - Web Design for Charity. I recon you've got too much to do with your studies at the moment.

Calvin Nix
Calvin Nix
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Calvin Nix
Calvin Nix
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Hello Holger,

Yeah my apologies for that, I have been extremely busy with work, school and trying to finish some tasks here at treehouse. I have added you on Twitter and I am still interested in working with a charity organization. Please let me know what I can do to help :)

Also... How did you like the IOS track? I am about to start it and I am hoping it is good, I enjoyed the android track a lot.

Holger Liesegang
Holger Liesegang
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Holger Liesegang
Holger Liesegang
50,595 Points

Calvin Nix I'm afraid the team for this job is already complete by now but there will be always other jobs in the future.

The iOS Track is really great but I like to recommend buying these books as a companion if you never worked with Objective C before: Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide and iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

I've read many books on this topic over the years but these are imho the best ones for future iOS developers :)

Calvin Nix
Calvin Nix
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Calvin Nix
Calvin Nix
43,828 Points

No problem! I figured that progress has already been made.

Thanks for that! I'll check those out!

Ben Jakuben
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Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher

Good answers! Thanks everyone for chiming in. I've added notes in the Teacher's Notes section to talk about some of the differences if using Android Studio. I'd recommend it as long as your comfortable working through the differences. If you have any problems you can always get help here in the Forum. :)

For a quick overview of Android Studio, check out the first stage of the Android Tools course.

Anand Prabhu
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Anand Prabhu
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Anand Prabhu
Anand Prabhu
Courses Plus Student 691 Points

It should be find as long as you know the difference between the 2 build systems. In Eclipse its Maven and in Android Studio its Gradle. If you could add the required additional and external libraries for the project in the build.gradle file and proceed with it, i don't think there should be any issues with the using Android Studio.

Calvin Nix
Calvin Nix
43,828 Points
Calvin Nix
Calvin Nix
43,828 Points

I believe this will all depend on how comfortable you are with android development. If this is your first time developing in Android I would suggest just to stick with Eclipse because if you use Android Studio there would be far to many variables in play that you could get stuck on. At least with a similar environment you would be able to troubleshoot issues easier.

Another thing to mention is that Android Studio is still in Beta so it will still contain bugs that you could get hung up on. If you are new to android development then you might not be able to identify whether an issue is code related or an environment issue.