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Daniel Perez
Daniel Perez

Reputation: 4332

Android programming and frameworks / IDEs to use?

I'm quite new to Android programming, I'm mainly a .NET guy =)

I've done several projects in Windows Phone, and I feel pretty comfortable with the MVVM pattern, C# and so on However, I want to get into Android development, because it's an important platform

I wanted to know what's the best free approach where I can reuse some of my skills to reduce the learning curve

I've been investigating and I saw several options..

Also, is there any approach to android programming that's the best? (as MVVM is the best for windows phone apps and the pattern embraced my microsoft)

Thanks!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 229

Answers (2)

ben75
ben75

Reputation: 28746

I'm not sure it's a suitable question for SO...

Anyway, here is my opinion regarding the IDE.

Eclipse + ADT-plugin was the "official" IDE supported by Google. But Google decide to develop an other solution based on IntelliJ : Android-Studio. So Eclipse is the legacy IDE and not the best choice if you are new to Android development.

On the other hand, Android-Studio is still in early development stage. I tried it a few weeks ago and in my opinion and for my use case (quite huge multi-module project) there was too many issues to work efficiently with it in it's current state.

Third option: IntelliJ-12 (free edition) is my current choice. It offers a smooth integration with android tools. It is stable. The UI is very similar to Android-Studio (and so switching to Android-Studio when it will be ready will be an easy step).

Upvotes: 2

Rajath S
Rajath S

Reputation: 169

This is an other alternative for crossplatform app making: www.phonegap.com

I don't know how relevant this is to your Question,

Upvotes: 0

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