Android Studio

[ajoy39]

Not sure how many of you watched Google's I/O today but they are releasing an Android specific IDE called Android Studio. It's still in the early stages right now, I dowloaded version 0.1 today, but it looks nice so far. 

[AMICLG]

Miss that part. Will have to try.

[arkon]

Wait, it's out? I saw the demo and MAN does it look way better than Eclipse.

 

EDIT: Here's the link for people who are looking for it: http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html

[Zonked]

Wow I didn't realise it was out now. Thanks for that one.

[InfiniteStratas]

I've been tinkering around it for a bit and it definitely looks better than Eclipse. The interface is fairly easy to use and isn't too bad in my opinion.

[jetbuster]

doesnt seem to start on windows 8 but the prospect seems awesome

[precisys]

doesnt seem to start on windows 8 but the prospect seems awesome

Make sure you have the Java SDK installed on your system and try again.

[arkon]

doesnt seem to start on windows 8 but the prospect seems awesome

Google it. There's an issue with environment variables and Java SDK, I think. Can't remember off the top of my head how to fix it and I'm on my phone...

[jetbuster]

Google it. There's an issue with environment variables and Java SDK, I think. Can't remember off the top of my head how to fix it and I'm on my phone...

 

 

Make sure you have the Java SDK installed on your system and try again.

http://tools.android.com/knownissues#as0.1

here it is just a path wrong!

[colonel_mortis]

doesnt seem to start on windows 8 but the prospect seems awesome

open the environment variables dialog and add the java install location to the "path" variable. It's listed as a known issue

[MzCatieB]

this says it all:

[Bassam Riman]

Android Studio is based on Intellij IDE, just as it was based on Eclipse before. Here is a link on Intellij vs Eclipse.

http://java.dzone.com/articles/why-idea-better-eclipse

I just started exploring Intellij seems awesome :)

[jamesmyth]

Haven't checked it out yet! Will soon though!

[Cheesebaron]

Eclipse is a huge platform, which tries to do a lot of different stuff, such as being an IDE for PHP, Java, Python, etc. However IntelliJ is aimed at doing Java applications. So while Eclipse does not know itself very good and does not do one single thing very good, IntelliJ is kind of opposite and is an awesome IDE for developing Java applications. Since Android's native language is based on Java, I personally think it was a good move, to move over to IntelliJ as the official IDE for Android.

[SNIT]

Hopefully it streamlines things.