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Google Previews Android Studio 2.0 (sdtimes.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the sneak-peek dept.

dmleonard618 writes: Google is gearing up to release Android Studio 2.0 with three key features. The company has released the preview version of the release, and says it focuses on speed of delivery and testing. The new features include Instant Run, which lets developers see the impact of their code changes; Android Emulator, a rebuilt user interface; and an early preview of a new GPU Profiler that allows developers to record and replay graphics-intensive apps frame by frame.

40 comments

  1. Speedy Delivery by bigpat · · Score: 2

    Approx. 2 month cycle for minor versions. 12 months for major versions. Bug fix versions out in a week or two. That is some aggressive development.

    http://tools.android.com/download/studio/stable

    1. Re:Speedy Delivery by JackieBrown · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Do you want it too? I'd rather not have apps able to touch that.

    2. Re:Speedy Delivery by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 1

      Will they also be discontinuing it in a matter of months, or will it last a full year or two before they shut it down?

    3. Re:Speedy Delivery by interval1066 · · Score: 1

      They're competing with iPhone, I assume.

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  2. Instant Run sounds nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The "Instant Run" feature sounds nice. Too bad it'll probably eat up 8GB of RAM now instead of 4.

    1. Re: Instant Run sounds nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Does someone need to buy you a workstation from 10 years ago? Literally, who cares. Most people are doing this to earn real money. 8 gigs is nothing hear days, stupid grey beard.

    2. Re: Instant Run sounds nice by SQLGuru · · Score: 2

      You'd be surprised how hard it is to get some companies to spend money on hardware.......in spite of how much more productive it would make their people. There's still arguments about whether to spend $100 for a second monitor......and that $100 is a one time spend over many years. Memory is in the same boat --- $100 to $150 that will last several years. The payback is almost instantaneous.

    3. Re: Instant Run sounds nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Agreed. The place I work, a few of us paid for things out of pocket. Nowadays, some people have ordered things on the company's dime without management's approval.

    4. Re: Instant Run sounds nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Agreed. I feel constrained at home trying to run VMs on a computer with 32GB of RAM. And yet work still has us all on various Windows Vista/7/8.x/10 machines with a paltry 8GB. Fuck you PHB!

    5. Re: Instant Run sounds nice by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 1

      Productivity doesn't always mean how much faster you get something done, sometimes productivity is whether or not you actually do something.

      I learned this lesson almost 20 years ago. And there are some people who view Man Hours as a sunk cost (no value). They don't see the value in upgrading / speeding up a process. They don't see it, because to them whatever it is costing to get the improvement isn't worth it, even if it would be worth in in spades. They just don't see man hours as anything other than static cost.

      But sometimes, the efficiency is such that it makes the difference

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  3. Still prefer vs 2015 by Billly+Gates · · Score: 2

    I love the hyper-v emulators more

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  4. My wish for Android... by bogaboga · · Score: 0

    I just wish that Android can be "beautiful" by default. I mean, the plain vanilla Android is damn ugly!! And tries hard to push Google services...

    I know beauty lies in the hands of the beholder.

    1. Re:My wish for Android... by Merk42 · · Score: 1

      Beauty, by your own admission, is subjective. Therefore it is impossible for something to be "'beautiful' by default".

    2. Re:My wish for Android... by pak9rabid · · Score: 1

      Rubbish...Apple's whole business model hinges on this idea.

    3. Re:My wish for Android... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I know what you mean. The UI looks like something from a toy for children.

    4. Re:My wish for Android... by puddingebola · · Score: 1

      And where has it gotten them! Huh?!

    5. Re:My wish for Android... by BradleyUffner · · Score: 1

      Rubbish...Apple's whole business model hinges on this idea.

      Is it popular because it's beautiful, or beautiful because it's popular?

    6. Re:My wish for Android... by mfearby · · Score: 1

      A massive pile of cash, there's where Apple is now thanks to their design philosophy. Mind you, there are nascent indications that this is getting out of control with yet another war on features under way, but Apple is still the king of mobile profits.

    7. Re: My wish for Android... by Threni · · Score: 1

      You'd be better off wishing you'd inherited better taste from you parents, what with there being nothing wrong with stock android 5 or 6.

    8. Re:My wish for Android... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Maybe I'm much older than Apple's target market, but I much preferred Apple's UI when it was Skeuomorphic. The new flat UI on both OS X and iOS is low contrast, it's not pretty to look at, and goes out of its way to hide things. Dumbing down the UI has broken the basic functionality of things: (iOS) Music, for example, *cannot* list music by Album properly any more, hiding about 90% of my music when in this mode.

    9. Re:My wish for Android... by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 1

      The market will correct itself. By definition, if Apple is making a lot of money, the opportunity is there for others to take away that money by being lower cost. Either that, or anti-trust becomes an issue. Either is fine by me.

    10. Re:My wish for Android... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The opportunity may be there .... but everybody is failing miserably at it.

  5. These IDE's just get int the way. by c0d3r · · Score: 2

    ADT and Android Studio just seem to get in the way for me. Many times, i've been troubled trying to compile apps with ADT and Android Studio. I used to have to create the project with ADT and Load it into Android studio sometime.

    android create project straight from the shell just works better for me. Ant compiles quickly, why compiling with Android Studio just takes forever. Even this new gradle thing doesn't seem to work well. What is gradle supposed to buy me? I just want it to make, not download a bunch of crap first.

  6. Android Developers Blog post link by bad_fx · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here is a link to the blog post on this, with much better info that the link in the story:

    http://android-developers.blog...

    1. Re:Android Developers Blog post link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thank you, that's much more informative than the original article. And shows that the "instant run" feature still takes about 9 seconds.

  7. Wiil it work on a 64-bit Linux system now? by mark-t · · Score: 2

    Or does it still require 32-bit compatibility libraries?

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  8. Re:Spyware H1B Phone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    And yet it's still better than Windows.

  9. How does it compare to Eclipse? by Snotnose · · Score: 2

    I'll be honest, I don't write apps for profit, I just scratch itches. That said, I fire up Eclipse maybe 2-3 times a year. Just about every time it drives me nuts, it's counter-intuitive to my way of thinking. Doesn't really help that I only fire it up when I either need a debugger, or load my app to my phone.

    When I say "2-3 times a year" I mean "2-3 groups of using it". I may fire it up 2-3 times a year, but each time I actually run it maybe 10-15 times. So I run it in clusters. Just when I start to get used to the interface I've solved my problem and won't use it again for another several months.

    1. Re:How does it compare to Eclipse? by Phil+Urich · · Score: 2

      It's still a very heavy IDE, and I don't know about you but it's the heavy IDE nature of Eclipse tended to be what I experienced friction with personally. That being said, Android Studio (at least prior versions, haven't tried this one yet) is lighter and better organized than Eclipse, if still generally following the same paradigms, and is generally more tuned to specifically developing for Android than their copy of Eclipse was (although it's worth mentioning that Android Studio is also based on an existing IDE, in its case IntelliJ IDEA).

      So, I'd say that compared to Eclipse, Android Studio is an improvement, but not a categorical one.

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    2. Re:How does it compare to Eclipse? by interval1066 · · Score: 2

      For what its worth, I prefer AS. Eclipse is a huge pile of fuck as far as I'm concerned.

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  10. Re:Spyware H1B Phone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Do you really mean it is the new Windows? As in full of holes, vulnerabilities and for extra, built-in spyware?

  11. Re:Spyware H1B Phone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's more popular, more secure and only has as much spyware as the user wants. Android is open source, meaning you can use it any way that you want. With Windows, it's Microsoft's way or no way.

  12. iOS developer here by cerberusss · · Score: 1

    Freelance iOS developer here. I've dabbled with Android Studio two years ago, but was really used to the convenience of the iOS Simulator. So how does Android Studio handle the simulator nowadays?

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  13. Re:Spyware H1B Phone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Android is not the operating system you need, but it is the one you deserve.

  14. Android Studio and IntelliJ are crap! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Android studio is the biggest piece of crap IDE I have ever used! What moron decided to use that POS!?! They need to keep supporting the best and most heavily used IDE, Eclipse.

  15. Re:Spyware H1B Phone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    And it's the one I use or more specifically AOSP is. It works great and doesn't have the spyware or ads that Windows has.