Great news! Android Studio - a new Android IDE based on IntelliJ IDEA - was presented by Google about 14 hours ago.
NetBeans in variety of versions was my first IDE probably (do you remember Java ME Platform SDK 3.0 that was actually NetBeans with deeply built-in plugins for J2ME?), but when I saw Eclipse I was impressed its power and expandability.
Eclipse is a great universal IDE that can do almost anything I want and I'll use it right now in projects after posting this text.
However, it's probably too universal to provide convenient ways for specific android developer actions. Layout editor built-in Eclipse was always slow and not very representative. It was always simpler and faster for me to edit xml-layouts manually. And slowness is not related only to Eclipse's layout editor, yeah. Eclipse is slow everywhere.
Hope we'll get something new and amazing with new Android Studio! It's on "early access preview" state now, so perhaps it's better to finish your current projects (and next one too) in Eclipse, but don't forget to check Studio's updates and look what's going on with it!
P.S. ADT was updated to 22.0 version too!
NetBeans in variety of versions was my first IDE probably (do you remember Java ME Platform SDK 3.0 that was actually NetBeans with deeply built-in plugins for J2ME?), but when I saw Eclipse I was impressed its power and expandability.
Eclipse is a great universal IDE that can do almost anything I want and I'll use it right now in projects after posting this text.
However, it's probably too universal to provide convenient ways for specific android developer actions. Layout editor built-in Eclipse was always slow and not very representative. It was always simpler and faster for me to edit xml-layouts manually. And slowness is not related only to Eclipse's layout editor, yeah. Eclipse is slow everywhere.
Hope we'll get something new and amazing with new Android Studio! It's on "early access preview" state now, so perhaps it's better to finish your current projects (and next one too) in Eclipse, but don't forget to check Studio's updates and look what's going on with it!
P.S. ADT was updated to 22.0 version too!
