Hi, Finally I'm in process of watching video by Nick [1] and I'm very impressed! >
Glad to know! > My question in short: should I dive in learning Scala, its android tooling > etc, if I plan to use it mainly for Android development? > That’s what I did, and I’m pretty happy with that choice. Besides, you never know — I’ve since started/rewritten many non-Android projects in Scala. > Does it have all the tools needed for this, how mature and stable are they? > The build system (sbt) is very mature on its own, with interesting interactive command line features (there are good videos on sbt from several recent Scala conferences). Perry’s Android plugin [1] is also stable and very actively supported. The IDE part is somewhat lagging — Intellij IDEA works fine, but may require some initial fiddling. A few days ago JetBrains finally changed the priority of this issue to Major [2]. Do you use it on a daily basis for your [commercial] projects? > I do use it on a daily (sometimes weekly) basis, however my project is yet to be released to the store (it’s a part of my Master Thesis). There have been commercial apps made with Scala at least as early as in 2011 (see ScalaDays of that year), and I think Perry (pfn), as well as other members of the community, have published a few. Overall I’ve never had any Scala-specific problems with the app. You might, however, bump into several things indirectly: - Bad ProGuard configuration - “LinearAlloc exceeded capacity” error [3] (as far as I remember, this should be fixed in Android 4.1) - GC strain as a result of too many immutable collection operations (in reality, images and Google maps are likely to have much bigger memory footprint than anything you do with collections) Thanks for the pointer to Facebook’s fork of ProGuard. I’ve quickly hacked a version of android-sdk-plugin using that fork, and after a couple of build runs it seems that I’m getting around 10-20s win! Nick [1] https://github.com/pfn/android-sdk-plugin [2] http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/SCL-6273 [3] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/scala-on-android/Ac3ToKKXUdg > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "scala-on-android" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
