On Jul 21, 10:16 pm, DanH <danhi...@ieee.org> wrote: > BTW, I'm a charter member of the "I hate Eclipse" club -- joined it > about ten years ago.
Likewise, though I can only claim about half that time. ;^) Nonetheless, as I've tried to do iPhone development on Xcode, I've come to appreciate Eclipse's strengths. Is Xcode more polished? Certainly. Is Xcode more stable? Probably. ADB crashes on me every hour or two. Eclipse restarts it automatically, though. Is Xcode faster? Yes, though some of this is down to iOS sharing underpinnings with OSX, and thus only needing a "simulator" rather than a full-on emulator. And Android has a clear advantage on emulator management - I'd love to be able to push GPS coordinates to an iPhone simulator, or have multiple instances running, or simulate an iPod Touch, or... Does Xcode have more functionality? I'd call this a draw. The only area I can immediately think of Xcode bettering Eclipse in is provisioning management, and since Android doesn't bother with such silliness, that's hardly an advantage. And at the end of the day, getting into iPhone development costs 4x what Android does ($100 vs $25), not even counting the cost of buying the proprietary hardware. Are the tools 4x better? Not a chance. String -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
