Anyone using Eclipse on Windows to develop Android apps?
Hi folks
I'm starting off down the path of some Android app development.
My chosen OS is Windows 7 and I've downloaded the Java JDK, Eclipse and the Android SDK. All installed OK. My problem is that Eclipse appears, in early use, to be a steaming pile of poo compared to Visual Studio or XCode.
It took me a couple of hours to get the "Hello World" app running using the tutorial on the Android SDK and now I've moved past that onto some serious development, I find that I'm spending more time recovering from crashes and fighting bizarre errors in the environment than working on my app.
Is it worth persevering or should I switch to a different IDE? I would love to use Visual Studio but the lack of Intellisense, debugging and error checking on Java and the Android libraries seems to preclude that as an option.
I am not prepared to step back 10 years and start using Notepad++ and command lines and really don't want to have to resort to Linux.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Regards
Simon