An iOS Developer Takes on Android →
An unbiased look at programming for Android, after having programmed for iOS. He gave it a good go, and realized that it’s terribleness has been exaggerated.1
About Eclipse:
You’re going to just hate Eclipse. You’re going to hate it with the heat of a thousand suns. […] The upside is, after acclimating to Eclipse, you’ll enjoy some seriously amazing, productivity-boosting code completion, refactoring, and automatic fixing. It’ll basically write your code for you.
And Android’s View system:
The best part is that it’s zero-effort-easy to make layouts that automatically resize for portrait/landscape device orientations and varying screen sizes. This is in stark contrast to the absolutely primitive springs and struts system in Cocoa/iOS.
It’s a true shame about the animation issues, however.
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By iOS developers who’ve tried for an hour to set up Eclipse, give up, and declare Android programming to be the devil. ↩
