Android App Project

[ajnl]

I'm getting together with 3 of my friends to build an Android app. I was just wondering if anyone has any experience building android apps in a group?

 

Any software that would make life easier?

 

Did you use eclipse or another coding program and why?

 

Which subversion did you use?

 

Code it in Python or Java and why?

[yellow flash]

I got school course going on now we are using eclipse haven't used other programs so cant tell why ;p

[Corey]

I did a school project at the beginning of the year where I had to create an Android app for our schools annual Fiddlers Convention they put on.

 

There were 4 of us in a group, but myself and another person did most of the coding and development.

 

None of us had any prior experience with developing an application so we started from scratch by following the official android development site

 

http://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/index.html

 

 

It recommended using Eclipse with the Android Development Tools plugin so that is what we used. 

 

Our teacher set us up with an svn where we could check the project into. The plugin we used was Subclipse

 

http://subclipse.tigris.org/

 

Our app was mostly informational so did not require a ton of Java code, but the java code we did need was found online.

 

 

 

Overall I had a good experience with Eclipse, Android Development Tools (ADT) , and the subclipse. Had to do a bit of playing around with it and research to learn, but we successfully created the app within a few months.

 

Here was a video I played for my class at the end that shows the work that was done

 

 

 

 

Hope that helps! Sorry for the long post!

[HELLFIRE]

I would sujest java for group programming. That's what I used when programming with others. Very easy to share stuff

[ajnl]

I did a school project at the beginning of the year where I had to create an Android app for our schools annual Fiddlers Convention they put on.

 

There were 4 of us in a group, but myself and another person did most of the coding and development.

 

None of us had any prior experience with developing an application so we started from scratch by following the official android development site

 

http://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/index.html

 

 

It recommended using Eclipse with the Android Development Tools plugin so that is what we used. 

 

Our teacher set us up with an svn where we could check the project into. The plugin we used was Subclipse

 

http://subclipse.tigris.org/

 

Our app was mostly informational so did not require a ton of Java code, but the java code we did need was found online.

 

 

 

Overall I had a good experience with Eclipse, Android Development Tools (ADT) , and the subclipse. Had to do a bit of playing around with it and research to learn, but we successfully created the app within a few months.

 

Hope that helps! Sorry for the long post!

Awesome, no need to apologize for the long post. Thank you for all the information!

[hobbit]

For my Android course we used Android Studio. It doesn't have quite as many features as Eclipse, nor is it completely bug free, but it is being continuously developed so you do get updates to the IDE quite often. Also used IntelliJ IDEA, which is kinda the full version of Android Studio.

 

Used Java for all the projects we did.

 

Android Studio - http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html

 

IntelliJ IDEA - http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/

[ajnl]

I would sujest java for group programming. That's what I used when programming with others. Very easy to share stuff

 

Any other reason why you would use java instead of python? 

 

For my Android course we used Android Studio. It doesn't have quite as many features as Eclipse, nor is it completely bug free, but it is being continuously developed so you do get updates to the IDE quite often. Also used IntelliJ IDEA, which is kinda the full version of Android Studio.

 

Used Java for all the projects we did.

 

Android Studio - http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html

 

IntelliJ IDEA - http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/

Any specific reason why you guys used Java?

[hobbit]

Any specific reason why you guys used Java?

Mainly because Java was a known language for everyone by that point, while Python is not as popular a language. Easier for everyone to be on the same page and not have to catch up on learning new languages.

 

Another plus is that java runs in a vm so that made life a bit easier for testing.

 

If everyone in your group knows Python then you could do it using that, but using java just keeps things simpler

[HELLFIRE]

 

Any other reason why you would use java instead of python? 

 

 

Any specific reason why you guys used Java?

Not really, other that the fact that it uses a lot of the same things as C#, which I was more used too.

[ajnl]

Mainly because Java was a known language for everyone by that point, while Python is not as popular a language. Easier for everyone to be on the same page and not have to catch up on learning new languages.

 

Another plus is that java runs in a vm so that made life a bit easier for testing.

 

If everyone in your group knows Python then you could do it using that, but using java just keeps things simpler

 

 

Not really, other that the fact that it uses a lot of the same things as C#, which I was more used too.

Alright cool. Well one of the goals in the project for me was to learn Python well. So I think I'll stick to that for now and do Java another time. Thanks again guys for the information.