[android-developers] Re: minimum hardware requirements to develop on

I develop on a three-year-old notebook using Eclipse and Linux. Emulators for any Android version higher than 2.2 are basically unusable on my machine (I once made the experiment of starting up a Jelly Bean emulator. The screen remained black after 15 minutes so I just killed the process). For that reason I use VirtualBox and x86 Android images for testing higher versions which works very well.

Build time can get really slow depending on the complexity of the app project. A clean build of an app with about 23 dependency projects takes up to 7 minutes.
Do not use the latest version of Eclipse. It does not work. Especially in combination with the ADT plugin a nightmare to use.

If you really don't need the convenience of Eclipse for handling Java code generation, auto-completion, refactoring etc. then just go for any editor you like. But anyway, you should be fine even with Eclipse. And you still can change your mind if it doesn't work for you.

On Sunday, December 2, 2012 1:51:14 PM UTC-6, Russell Wheeler wrote:

So far I have been developing directly on my galaxy nexus and nexus 7 using the amazing AID app.

However, as the N7 can't provide logs due to it being jelly bean, i feel the need to get a mini notebook in order to utilise adb logcat.

My main worry is that something with only 1gb (2gb if i upgrade, which i will) and a 1.5-1.83GHz atom CPU won't be powerful enough.

I can possibly get around certain worries by not using emulators and testing directly on my two devices, so that will save me a great deal. Also I am tempted to just use vim and command line tools instead of eclipse which again might save me from a slow PC.

What do you guys think? Is the notebook way under powered? What if i just use vim and no emulators?

Side note, does anyone actually code in vim/command line?

Cheers

Russ

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