Monday, February 8, 2010

my first thoughts - android dev

i, by far, am not a great programmer. but in my experience, i know one thing! motodev sucks!!!

it's very buggy, does not properly install on win7. i've had better luck on xp and in fact, so far all my assignments have been done in xp. getting the emulator to properly load from within motodev is a hit or a miss. not to mention it's a rebranded version of eclipse with moto's integrated crap.

i still have to install eclipse with the android plug-in and google sdk...most likely my next post.

as for android itself...the GUI is created using xml files. it's certainly a lot easier than iphone programming because there's no need to learn objective-c and you don't have to put up with the cocoa bs. right now, i have 0 java experience but i feel like that's going to change real fast.

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