ferhr ([info]ferhr) wrote,
@ 2009-07-03 05:42:00
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Android versus iPhone Development (a comparison)
It's a bit biased towards Java-based Android, but it's still nice because it exposes the obvious flaws that XCode (and Mac development) has since... well, since NeXT. From here:


A quick excerpt (because it has more things than pure text).

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Android versus iPhone Development: A Comparison

A few months ago I ventured into the world of Mobile development and created an application (Hudson Helper) for both iPhone and Android. This article is about my experiences, comparing Android and iPhone development with a focus on tools, platform and the developer experience.

Before going much further I should note that my comparison is with considerable bias. I’ve spent the past 12+ years in Java development, having spent much of my career building developer tools. Since January of 2004 I’ve been building plug-ins for Eclipse, and before that plug-ins for NetBeans. With this background I find that I’m very critical of developer tools. Developer productivity is key — anything that takes away from the flow of a developer in the zone is a real problem.

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[info]rafasgj
2009-07-03 05:33 pm UTC (link)
Every developer tool that "get's in the way" is not a good tool. Period.

For my work, vim, grep, ctags and gdb make me the most productive. People tried Eclipse here, and they were long time Eclipse users.

At the end? They asked me how to use the tools I use.

Obviously, it wouldn't work for everyone or every point, and that's exactly my point.

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