I know you’re just being facetious, but you actually can compile Android code on a Mac. Android Studio runs just as badly no matter what platform you use.
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Apple Now Offering Developers Access to Xcode Cloud
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I know you’re just being facetious, but you actually can compile Android code on a Mac. Android Studio runs just as badly no matter what platform you use.
I just wish they focussed on making Xcode much better than it is before trying to expand to services that already exist. As an IDE it is quite mediocre for professionals at the moment...
If you're serious about developing software for multiple platforms, Xcode Cloud would just be an annoying vendor lock-in...
If you're serious about developing software for multiple platforms, Xcode Cloud would just be an annoying vendor lock-in...
Indeed. Visual Studio is also available for the Mac and runs reasonably well. Mostly. Visual Studio would allow you to write apps using Xamarin Forms. The advantage is you can write an app that runs on iOS, Mac, Android, Windows, and possibly other platforms and most of your code is shared. The disadvantage is you likely would not have direct compatibility with Xcode Cloud or any other service that integrates directly with Xcode and you would be at the mercy of a 3rd party provider to provide Apple's features to you which is something Steve Jobs warned about.
I've never used Xamarin Forms, but I've done cross platform development using the Ionic Framework and it went reasonably well. I got entangled with different dependencies between the platforms, but once I got the issues sorted out that potential of having one codebase serve multiple platforms was indeed realized, but only if the dev was on a Mac so if someone not a on Mac were to update the app, I'd still have to intervene.
I'm not sure how deep this XCode in the cloud goes, but I sure hope that it does or at least will eventually allow for someone to do a clean iOS compile from a Windows machine.
I hate subscriptions, and I'm even more suspicious when "free 3 months" or whatever. I mean, that's what Sirius/XM does. That's what AOL did.
Not seeing benefits big enough to overcome the drawbacks. Or even big enough to overcome my BS-detector.
Not seeing benefits big enough to overcome the drawbacks. Or even big enough to overcome my BS-detector.
Oh, have you ever use Eclipse for Android dev? It was that before Android Studio came out. Not sure if it was ever possible with IntelliJ, though.
Android Studio was a godsend.
That being said, I haven't done Android dev in a looong time, so as with anything, it probably got worse with time...
No. He's talking about Android Studio which is Google's IDE for developing Android apps. It's available for Mac.
Oh, well, see, that makes sense. A lawsuit would be brought forth, however, based on people that are using a tool for a purpose it was not intended and, instead of acquiring the thing that does what they want, they’d try to get the government to force Apple to end it’s monopoly on Xcode!