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Veeru
Veeru

Reputation: 4936

Eclipse development woes

I would like to ask my fellow developers of their experience with eclipse.

I have recently started with eclipse and android, though the interface and development is not bad at all; but i have a major nagging issue.

Out of the blue eclipse or android compiler, am not sure, decides to go bonkers and misbehave. I spend so much time trying to debug and find errors in my code just to realize that a shutdown and restart of eclipse fixes it.

For example, one of my elements was returning null (using findViewById in android) - i spend about an hour trying to debug. Then decided to restart eclipse and it was fine. I wonder why?!

Is there anything that i ought to do ? ANything that i am missing with the eclipse settings. It really troubles me because it puts a brake on my development every now and then

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 272

Answers (2)

JoeHz
JoeHz

Reputation: 2196

I personally never got comfortable with Eclipse and wound up settling on IDEA. When I had to work in C#, I found I was so stuck on it that I sprung out of my own pocket for the plugin to make Visual Studio work like IDEA

When I started to pick up Android, I begrudgingly went back to Eclipse, but once I needed to actually do something in Android, I checked back and discovered current version of IDEA (including the free one) supports Android development now too. Instructions for Eclipse all translate to it reasonably well, and the emulator won't change, so if that's where the issue is, you should find out reasonably quickly.

Upvotes: 1

Mike Green
Mike Green

Reputation: 2071

There are two general things that I suggest:

  • Fire up the emulator from outside of eclipse at startup time and leave it running (if you don’t already do this).

  • Add some memory to your development machine.

Upvotes: 0

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