And in each successive release the emulator slowed.Īndroid’s pubescent period (otherwise known as Honeycomb) and its eventual emergence into adulthood had a devestating effect on emulator performance. Each successive release up to and beyond version 1.0 added much needed functionality to both the OS and the emulator. The emulator started up quickly and was responsive. My first exposure to Android was the M3 pre-release SDK’s emulator (pictured). Half of the developer flow in this funnel comes from the tools and the other half from APIs. Without quality development tools there are no quality apps, without quality apps there are no quality users, and without quality users the developers will flee. Why was all of this important and why is it important for Google moving forward?ĭevelopers are the top of the funnel for Android’s continued success.
They’re both still beta (albeit arguably in the sense that GMail was circa 2008). Neither the Gradle plugin nor the IntelliJ IDEA plugin (known bundled as Android Studio) are at a v1.0 yet. Ownership of the Android plugin inside IntelliJ IDEA (with a sprinkle of branding) yields a development environment that moves mountains for you. A first-party Gradle plugin now provides the powerful and dynamic platform on which any app of quality is built. In the two years since he and the tools team have transformed the landscape of how Android development is done. Xavier Ducrohet swooped in and dropped a bomb on the resulting Google+ thread: “We are looking at revamping the whole thing”. My post joined the cries of others who knew that something had to be done. Third-party solutions existed for both tooling and IDE but they always felt a bit illegitimate and at risk for problems. At the time, Eclipse ADT and Ant were the blessed solutions and they just hadn’t scaled with the platform. Two years ago I wrote a blog post complaining that the Android build system was broken. Android Needs A Simulator, Not An Emulator
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