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>> "The most annoying part of Android development is probably Eclipse"

Hopefully Android Studio[1] will be the solution to that problem.

>> "I keep hearing this FUD, but I have no idea where it's coming from. I've never had any problems with the Android documentation."

I don't think the Android documentation is bad but I find iOS documentation much better. It might just be because I'm more used to the iOS docs (5 years experience vs. 1 year on Android).

[1] http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html




Coming from a world of Java (Java SE of no particular platform and Android), I find the iOS documentation surprisingly hard to navigate. In the Java world, it's common for documentation on a class to contain at least a page of introductory material to the class including its purpose, its function, major caveats, some example code, etc. The iOS documentation splits all of that up between Getting Started articles, the class documentation, and separately-downloadable sample code projects. It's all there if you know where to look, but it's inconveniently spread out.


Maybe it is just because I've more experience with iOS documentation that I find it superior then.




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