It's 2012, are people still using Eclipse for Android? What about emulators?

Question

I know the IDE question has been asked before, but I'm hoping there are new IDEs/options available to developers. Eclipse is too slow/unstable, even with my 8 GB of RAM.

Also, do we have any other options for emulators? The Android emulators, aside from being slow, I find is not a real world simulator of an Android device.

This is my first post on Stack Overflow, and hopefully by opening up older questions I haven't broken any of the rules.

Answer 1

I have 4GB on Windows 7 x64, AMD PhenomX2 and Eclipse it is not slow. I would suggest modifying eclipse.ini to give more RAM memory to eclipse :

-Xms512m
-Xmx768m
-XX:MaxPermSize=768m

You could also have a look at this blog post : Eclipse and memory settings.

As for the AVD, the emulators run better than before, but still if you want to simulate an 3.1+ Platform Device, you'll be in serious problems, since it is very slow. So as you said, it's 2012, you should probably test on some real devices.