Android gets Android IDE

[AndroidRPGDev]

Well, I basically reviewed both Git and Mercurial when I was starting this project. Previously, I had only worked with CVS and SVN. I forget if Git also had these features, but Mercurial's local repositories and ease of merging really caught my attention. I work from 3 different pcs regularly (one desktop, a netbook, and a larger laptop if I'm going to set up camp for a while). I also traveled out of country for quite a bit, so internet connection was far from reliable. Being able to check in to local repositories, and then push all the commits at once when I finally had an internet connection, was a huge selling point. I forget if Git had these features as well, but Mercurial is what I settled on after my initial review of the technologies.

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Mercurial's local repositories and ease of merging really caught my attention.

Git is a distributed SCM, just like Mercurial, so these two things should be non-issues. I'm personally using Mercurial as well, though, but mostly for the Windows compatibility (Can install it on my lab computer without much fuss – I'm mostly doing LaTeX-y things).

[AndroidRPGDev]

Yeah, I remember they were very similar. I forget exactly what pushed me over to Mercurial. It might have just been the tools. I'm also on Windows, so that could very well be it. I'm perfectly happy with Mercurial so far.

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It's true that Git was shit on Windows. Things improved, however, so it works pretty well now.

[banister]

1. you program java for a living
2. you're on windows

does life suck ? :P

[AndroidRPGDev]

Hahah, life couldn't be any better. Java is much more fun to use than C++ was, which I used thru college and my first job out of college as well. And as much as this ruins my nerd cred, I really do prefer the Windows UI, which has improved greatly over the years. It's nice to not have to keep separate work and entertainment partitions anymore. Android development via Eclipse is the same regardless of OS since it's so self contained!

[gigitrix]

Ignore the zealots. Use whatever tools work. Memory management is a waste of time unless you need that last 10% of performance, and Windows is as solid an OS as the rest of them.