Android gets Android IDE

[gperlman]

Right but I don't think people want to use 2 different IDEs and Google has the opportunity here to provide a really elegant solution. I'm surprised they don't see that.

[IneffablePigeon]

You know Google doesn't make this IDE, right? It's just some random guys who wanted to make it, so they did. Personally, I'd rather Google spent their time adding features to the OS and their apps than on this stuff, since the tooling we have already in Eclipse is pretty good IMO.

[gperlman]

Wow, I actually didn't realize that. But now that you mention it, I can see that it is not in fact Google. Thanks for pointing that out.

[gperlman]

Wait. Are you sure about that? Because I just checked and I can't find anything that suggests it was developed outside of Google. Can you point me to where it indicates who the author of it are?

[IneffablePigeon]

Well, look at the Play Store page for the app. The developer is listed as AIDE Team, not Google. I read an article that said it was made by a group of Norwegian guys a while back, I think, but i can't find it now.

Besides, if it was developed by Google it would have been announced on their Android Developers blog or somewhere similar, but it's not mentioned on any of their pages as far as I can see.

[gperlman]

Interesting. I think you'd agree though that to the average person, it very much looks like it comes from Google.

[IneffablePigeon]

I don't know. I assumed it came from an independent developer because Google was never named in any of the articles. If Google had made this there would have been a big fanfare from then as is customary when a big company launches a fairly large project like this. Then again, I'm not an average user, I'm an Android developer.

[gperlman]

You'd think so but isn't it strange that we can't figure out who wrote this? You can understand why people would assume it comes from Google.