Side by side installation of Andoid Studio & Eclipse on Windows. Possible? Pitfalls?

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Anyone here installed Android Studio with Eclipse and the associated Android bits and bobs already in place on a Wintel box?

If you have are there any complications/pitfalls to watch out for?

Supplementary question for users of Android Studio on Wintel.

Is the release version of Android Studio stable enough for it to be worth the effort of installing it or is it still at a point were waiting for the first SP / version 2 would be a sensible thing to do?

Posted 18-Dec-14 19:11pm

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Richard MacCutchan · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-18T22:53:00

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I have used both, and at one time did have them installed side by side with no problems. Since I have used eclipse in the past for general Java development, I prefer the eclipse implementation, but I am sure there are many developers who prefer Android studio. The bottom line answer is that you have to try it for yourself and make your own decision.

Posted 18-Dec-14 22:53pm

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cigwork 20-Dec-14 5:21am

Thanks for that. The problem (as I understand it) is that it is no longer going to be a case of preference because The Chocolate Factory is dropping Eclipse as the IDE so it will be A.S. or nothing (chiz chiz). What I'd also like to know, hence the supplementary q., is whether or not A.S. is stable enough for me to make the cut-over now or to hang on a bit. Quite happy to hang on for SP1/V2 of A.S 'cos Android is hobby stuff only for me and I'm not interested in being at the bleeding edge for "fun" stuff; bad enough dealing with it in the day job.

Richard MacCutchan 20-Dec-14 7:40am

The Chocolate Factory is dropping Eclipse as the IDE
Not sure I understand what you are saying, or what the sigificance of that is.

As far as I am aware, Android Studio is quite stable, but as I said before, I have not used it extensively.

cigwork 3-Jan-15 4:44am

Have a butcher's at these and all should be a bit clearer.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/09/a_first_look_at_googles_android_studio_10_should_you_use_it

http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/migrate.html

BTW. A colleague _seems_ to have found a problem on Windows machines with AMD processors not running the new emulator at all; even with hardware acceleration off. I'm increasingly tempted to hold off and wait for SP1/V2.

cigwork 10-Jun-16 15:23pm

Well just spent a day or so trying Android Studio 2 and have uninstalled it. Can't run the HAXM emulator on my machine (fair enough it's a Celeron box), but, worse, the armabi emulator(s) won't run either and 17 minutes for gradely to build "hello world" is just taking the mickey.

Until I replace this machine will have to plod on with Eclipse/ADT even though I won't be able to target newer APIs. At least the Eclipse/ADT emulator works and building a "real" application only takes a few tens of seconds at most.

I'm pretty cheesed off, but at least this isn't work related.