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octopus · on July 16, 2014

DO didn't ask me for any kind of ID, I just used a plain old credit card to pay for their services ...

octopus · on July 16, 2014

Android Studio is based on IntelliJ (the Community Edition if I remember correctly).

georgemcbay · on July 16, 2014

Yes, this is correct.

Also, you don't have to use Eclipse or Android Studio at all if you don't want to. You can use whatever text editor and whatever build system floats your boat (ant and gradle are common).

The only time I use either of the Android IDEs (Android Studio, because Eclipse is horrible) is when I need to do on-device visual debugging; otherwise I just do command-line builds and deploy using adb.

octopus · on July 6, 2014

Android 4.0 is the minimum required version, the game runs just fine on KitKat.

octopus · on June 5, 2014

Interesting, did you run your tests on iOS8, OS X 10.10 or on OS X 10.9.3 ?

Xcode or command line ?

octopus · on June 4, 2014

Probably the best move for Google would be to write a super fast WebView implementation. This will let the huge mass of web developers to use JavaScript at a speed comparable to Java.

octopus · on June 2, 2014

It is the job of a programmer to learn/try new programming languages and always improve his skills.

octopus · on June 2, 2014

Open source or not, Swift will never be appealing for the world outside Apple's garden if it will be as intertwined with Cocoa as Objective-C currently is. It will be nice however to see how well Swift could be ported to Android.

octopus · on June 2, 2014

Yes, you need a Mac, especially if you want to be able to use Xcode and Swift.

If you are short on money, you can try to buy a second hand iMac or a MacMini (just be sure it will support the next OS X version 10.10).

octopus · on June 2, 2014

This is probably the biggest announcement from a developer perspective. Swift looks like a language in which you can code as fast as you code in languages like Ruby or Python, while having the speed and performance of a language like Objective-C.

octopus · on June 2, 2014

Swift looks a lot like a scripting/dynamic programming language. For e.g. this is a complete Swift program:

    println("Hello")

I think the idea was that Swift will be as easy to code as Python and faster than Objective-C.

MichaelGG · on June 2, 2014

Dynamic has nothing to do with it. printfn "Hello" is a complete program in F#, too.

There's no reason C#, Java, etc. can't have such things exposed, but they get so wrapped up in their boilerplate and OO overhead they choose not to.