It does look like Google is moving ever forward with Android, this time pointing app developers to its new Android Studio – released last year and has garnered the praise of a lot of developers who got on board. It was only a matter of time before older app development tools would have to be killed off, and that’s what’s happening to Android Developer Tools in Eclipse.
Google has officially declared that it will stop support for Android Development Tools (ADT) in Eclipse by the end of 2015. ADT was very useful for developers at its time because it allowed them to set up Android projects, create varied UIs (user interfaces) for applications and run debug processes. It’s weakness, however was that users needed to install plugins for them to do specific tasks and functions.
The introduction of Android Studio in December last year was a welcome development for app makers for Android, as the new development suite makes it so developers don’t have to install more plugins for device-specific stuff. Android Studio allows app developers to build apps for the ever-expanding reach of Android – not just phones and tablets, but for wearables, vehicles and televisions as well.
And so developers are being encouraged to migrate their projects from ADT in Eclipse to Android Studio. “If you have not had the chance to migrate your projects to Android Studio, now is the time,” Android product manager Jamal Eason said in the official blog post (see source link). The migration process is heck easy as well. For most developers, it would be as easy as downloading Android Studio and then importing the Eclipse project files.
SOURCE: Google
