On 02/26/2016 09:03 PM, Peter Easthope wrote:
Suppose a user needs one or a few Android apps but is not
particularly interested in owning an Android device. Is
installation of Android SDK to a small laptop and app usage there
feasible? Or not worth the distraction and better to buy a tablet or
smartphone?
On 02/27/2016 05:53 AM, Reco wrote:
... Android SDK is basically a rebranded Eclipse IDE plus heavily
patched QEMU (for ARM architecture emulation). To describe it in one
word - it's a memory and CPU hog, completely redundant for actual
*running* Android apps.
I tried doing some Android development last year. The tool of choice
then and now seems to be Android Studio. It was very heavy and the
documentation lagged behind releases. Setting it up on Debian with
OpenJDK took effort (Windows and Oracle JDK looked like the path of
least resistance). I went several steps beyond "hello, world" by
following the on-line tutorials, but ran into things that I couldn't
tell if they were bugs, features, OpenJDK issues, or operator error. I
never tried to download, install, and run Android apps from Google Play,
but would be interested to know if it actually works:
http://developer.android.com/tools/studio/index.html
David
