Google Launches Android Studio 4.0 With Motion Editor, Build Analyzer, and Java 8 APIs (venturebeat.com) 6
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: Google today launched Android Studio 4.0, the latest version of its integrated development environment (IDE). Android Studio 4.0 is supposed to help developers "code smarter, build faster, and design apps." Version 4.0 includes a new Motion Editor, a Build Analyzer, and Java 8 language APIs. Google also overhauled the CPU Profiler user interface and improved the Layout Inspector. [In the article] you'll find Android Studio 4.0 features broken down by category: design, develop, and build. The new version also includes the usual performance improvements and bug fixes on top of the new features (full release notes). Google didn't share its plans for the next version. Normally we'd get hints at the company's I/O developer conference, but 2020 is a weird year.
Why haven't they added support for Go yet? (Score:1)
I fucking hate Java, for a lot of reasons. Too flame-worthy to get into beyond that.
Go, on the other hand, has been an absolute dream to work with. Took some time to get acclimated, but otherwise it's been great.
So why don't we have a framework for writing Android apps in Go yet? I'm sure there are plenty of mobile devs out there that would rather write in Go instead of Java. Come on Google, eat your own damn dogfood already.
Re:Why haven't they added support for Go yet? (Score:4, Informative)
https://developer.android.com/... [android.com]
Does it prevent nuclear meltdown? (Score:1)
Re: (Score:3)
Seriously. I don't even know how Android Studio takes so many resources. Comparing it to something like Visual Studio which has been getting more bloated and slow in the last few iterations but it's still nowhere near as bad as Android Studio. Android Studio seems to want to take close to a GB of memory even for a simple Hello World project.
They also need a way to run apps for testing without emulating an entire phone, or actually running it on a phone. It really lengthens the testing and debugging time wh
Google does a lot of things right ... (Score:2)
... when it comes to supporting developers. Android Studio is one of those things.
Nice. Like it.