I spoke directly with Xavier Durouchet (sic), and asked if this means they are moving to Eclipse (first question in 'What's new in the Android SDK" talk from IO13).
It is clear, that they are NOT moving away from Eclipse, but find the JetBrains architecture easier to customize in the ways they want (in particular, the direct Gradle implementation was one of the things he particularly called, and the xml next to visual layout). For now, and the immediate future, Eclipse is still the supported Platform. Android Studio is Preview (ie. Alpha). Don't forget where some other tools they demoed during the keynote have gone (ie. Wave, NexusQ, ). The ADT Eclipse tools are very stable, and used by many people, and documented - it wouldn't make sense to abandon that for a multitude of reasons. I am particularly interested, in that I am just finishing a book on the ADT (out in the next 2 months), so was a little worried about major re-writes ;-). Turns out Android Studio is just another direction, and not the abandonment of Eclipse. I will write a chapter, but clearly, it's too early for anything more comprehensive (maybe in the second printing). The thing is, that the tools themselves are open-source, and designed to be easy to port. Support for InteliJ has existed for a long time already. Many of the things they demoed, are available in the standard ADT now (in particular, the visual editor preview stuff for multiple screen sizes, etc). I think the core tools will be the same between platforms, with certain optimizations (regarding workflow in particular) will make each IDE unique in it's own way. I like Eclipse, and have been using it for a long time. I am not sure I am ready to switch to an entirely new IDE quite yet. I am excited to play with it a bit, as it looks to have some nice optimizations. Mike http://www.amazon.com/Android-Developer-Tools-Essentials-Zipalign/dp/1449328210 On Thursday, May 16, 2013 2:20:05 AM UTC-7, fabrizio.giudici wrote: > > http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect @ Tidalwave s.a.s. > "We make Java work. Everywhere." > http://tidalwave.it/fabrizio/blog - fabrizio...@tidalwave.it <javascript:> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
