Re: [android-developers] Tips on Using Vim

Kristopher Micinski wrote:

I used to use emacs and ant quite a bit.  The `android` command line
tool is pretty helpful, and there's an emacs minor mode within the SDK
(at least, there was the last time I checked).  It's not all that
great, and you should probably look into a solution which works for
vim (e.g., emacs has a java mode which is quite elaborate but is
really hard to configure).  Basically, unless you have a pretty good
reason, you should stick with some IDE.  Editing Java without
completion (though JDEE for emacs does have this it's hit or miss
since you have to precompile the completions) is pretty painful.

Jacky Alcine wrote:
> Is there anyone out here using Vim and other tools (Maven, Ant, etc) to go
> about doing Android development? If so, what do you recommend?

In addition to what Kristopher said, there are standard tools in the Android world. Have 

you read the docs at developer.android.com?

When you use one of the many flavors of the "android create project" command it sets

up an Ant script for you. Well, that's changing now to a Gradle build, but as with such 

things the old way has inertia.

Android has some built-in tools, like the "android" command itself, that have both a 

command-line mode and a GUI mode. IDEs like Eclipse layer menu commands on top 

of these tools, and build in hooks to the ADB utility, the debugger and the build system. 

This tends to be smoother and more powerful to use than straight-up editors, but there are 

definitely times to go command-line even if you are mostly GUI oriented. 

I'd say use whichever editor or IDE you personally like best. Attachment to a development 

environment reaches the level of religious devotion and it's not for us to interfere with that.

But if you are more ecumenical you are likely to be more effective. And for Pete's sake do

read the documentation. Much of what you want to know for this question is there already.

-- 

Lew

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