Progress and IntelliJ
Yay for having a couple of evening free to code over the weekend. It felt good to get two consecutive nights of coding.
I have continued to work on my next android app. There were 5 large items left and then I thought of one more. So there are six... That is about to be reduced to 5 as I have nearly completed one of them. I am not planning on allowing much in the way of feature creep.
Ok that last paragraph was pretty dry sounding and to be honest fairly dull. What I have actually been doing is working on adding support for multiple projects. Once complete you will be able to have separate to-do lists for different projects, or just work, home, hobby lists. I would say I am about half way though adding this feature.
It is something that could probably have been dropped for a first release but I really want to have a reasonably complete app at the release stage. The reason for this is the android market place it now a big place, releasing into a crowded market is quite different to releasing an app in the early days.
I am realistic about expectations. If I get a couple of thousand download over the period of a year I will be quite happy it is after all primarily a app (re)learning much of android.
On the other night of development I decided to mess around with Scala and IntelliJ. This involved creating multiple projects to discover more about the tooling provided. Questions like should I use their build system or create my own project via sbt and import it? Are the re-factoring tools good, can I use Scala for android stuff and so on. Does Hot Swapping work? Profiling?
Overall I am quite impressed and I managed to figure out enough that I feel reasonably confident to start to use IntelliJ as my primary IDE for learning scala in. I have read quite a bit about scala but it is not staying in my head as I really need to be using it. So the plan is to start to bash out some code in it, probably using it as a "super Java" and then gradually learn the rest as I go.
I have continued to work on my next android app. There were 5 large items left and then I thought of one more. So there are six... That is about to be reduced to 5 as I have nearly completed one of them. I am not planning on allowing much in the way of feature creep.
Ok that last paragraph was pretty dry sounding and to be honest fairly dull. What I have actually been doing is working on adding support for multiple projects. Once complete you will be able to have separate to-do lists for different projects, or just work, home, hobby lists. I would say I am about half way though adding this feature.
It is something that could probably have been dropped for a first release but I really want to have a reasonably complete app at the release stage. The reason for this is the android market place it now a big place, releasing into a crowded market is quite different to releasing an app in the early days.
I am realistic about expectations. If I get a couple of thousand download over the period of a year I will be quite happy it is after all primarily a app (re)learning much of android.
On the other night of development I decided to mess around with Scala and IntelliJ. This involved creating multiple projects to discover more about the tooling provided. Questions like should I use their build system or create my own project via sbt and import it? Are the re-factoring tools good, can I use Scala for android stuff and so on. Does Hot Swapping work? Profiling?
Overall I am quite impressed and I managed to figure out enough that I feel reasonably confident to start to use IntelliJ as my primary IDE for learning scala in. I have read quite a bit about scala but it is not staying in my head as I really need to be using it. So the plan is to start to bash out some code in it, probably using it as a "super Java" and then gradually learn the rest as I go.
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