Gideros will drop support for export to Eclipse in 2017

hgy29

Hi Giderians,

Android Studio is the recommanded way to develop for Android since a few years now, and it becomes difficult and time consuming to maintain both Android Studio and Eclipse sides of export.
So we (the core team) decided to drop support for Eclipse in 2017 releases of Gideros.

We hope this makes sense to all of you too.

talis

Even as a tool i love Eclipse, this decision is wise and i support it with all my heart.
Goodbye eclipse we will miss you [..]

hgy29

@talis, I quite agree with you, I use eclipse for all my devs: C,Java,PHP, and even as an editor when modifying gideros files, and Android Studio is so slow...

SinisterSoft

Good job that with the new improved plugins we won't even need to use AndroidStudio then either...

keszegh

if we could set permissions of the apk upon exporting to apk directly, then indeed i would not need even android studio to create the final apk of an app.

hgy29

@keszegh, yes that's the idea

john26

I think the direct APK export should not delete the tmp directory. That way the user can tinker with eg the manifest file and rebuild presumably with a single command (gradle?). That way we get all the flexibility without having to use another IDE.

BTW I agree getting rid of Eclipse is a good idea. It is only barely (unofficially) supported for Android anyway now. However, Android Studio seems so slow and heavy, worse than Eclipse. The best solution is to build at the command prompt for all OS's including iOS (xcodebuild), WinRT (msbuild), Android (gradle) etc...

SinisterSoft

That doesn't matter - if you export to Android Studio (that has to be installed for apk export to work) instead then you just load in that and tinker to your hearts content.

So no problem deleting the tmp folder.

SinisterSoft

Once you have one built android project in Android Studio, it speeds up a lot for future projects.

antix

@SinisterSoft true, but once you get a bit more used to using AS, it's still terribly slow.

SinisterSoft

Apparently there is a setting to do with how much memory is allocated that will speed things up (I have to do something similar with Eclipse) - not sure what the setting is though.

Edit - see:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30817871/android-studio-is-too-slow

simwhi

Hi all,

This is a good guide to speeding up AS:
https://medium.com/@101/speed-up-gradle-build-in-android-studio-80a5f74ac9ed#.1oja62c0k

antix

I will try some of those out when I get round to building my new game in AS. I'm mostly just impatient with AS because exporting to APK from Gideros Studio is very quick