Comparison between Eclipse and Android Studio for Android Development

ANDROID STUDIO OR
ECLIPSE FOR ANDROID
DEVELOPMENT
Liu Cheng & Hamzah Alghamdi

CONTENT
INTRODUCTION
CRITERIA
01
02
03
EVALUATION
04
CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION
BU SIN ESS BACKGRO UN D
A New Studio
d e v e l o p A n d ro i d a p p l i c a t i o n s fo r
s m a l l t o m e d i u m e n t e r p r i s e s
Developers are familiar with
Java and XML with 5 years
experience of development.
Mainly focus on native
application development while
no need of graphics library.

INTRODUCTION
PRO BLEM CO N TE X T
Google announced the official
IDE (Integrated Development
Environment) --- Android
Studio in Nov, 2014.
For developers, Eclipse is more
familiar with its interface as
well as structure (they’ve
been using Eclipse for 5 years).
3 developers are using
Windows while 2 developers
are using Mac OS.
Software development requires
using Git for version control
and cooperation.

METHODOLOGY
DESCR IPTIO N
• There are 14 criteria in total divided into six categories
A set of criteria were used for evaluation of the two tools
• 5 for being minimal requirement and 1 for low importance
Criteria where given weight in scale of 1 to 5 according to their importance
• Each tool evaluated for each criteria and the one meet most of the requirements
will be recommended to the studio
Criteria where given scores of 1 to 5 according to their satisfaction level

While some of aspects have
their weight, they are
necessary, such as System
Compatibility, Version Control
and API Support.
NOTE
METHODOLOGY
E VA LUATIO N GOA LS A N D SCO PE
EVALUATION WEIGHT
Features Ease of Use Compatibility
Performance Installation Resources & Plugins

METHODOLOGY
FE ATU R ES
Criteria
Impact
Level
Description
Module 1
module is a component of any application
that can be built, tested or debugged
independently.
Workspace 1
workspace is a set of related projects that
usually make up an application together .
User Interface 5
User Interface is what the developer
interacts with during the development of the
project
FEATURES

METHODOLOGY
E A SE O F U SE
Criteria
Impact
Level
Description
Code
Completion
3
Code Completion is a function that suggest to
the user the next possible options
Gradle
Integration and
Resource
Management
3
Gradle is a project management tool that will
make building projects easier
EASE OF USE

METHODOLOGY
PER FO R M A NCE
Criteria
Impact
Level
Description
start up time 3
it is important that each application built
does not take a lot to load
memory
usage
5
in every system memory is limited and the
less memory used the better
PERFORMANCE

METHODOLOGY
CO M PATIBILIT Y
Criteria
Impact
Level
Description
Compatibility
with OSs
5
It is important to allow developers to use
their preferred OS
project
migration
3
it must be easy to use project that what
created by other tools
COMPATIBILITY

METHODOLOGY
IN STA LL ATIO N
Criteria
Impact
Level
Description
Installation
Simplicity
1
installation should not be complex the
simpler the installation the better
SDK access 3
having SDK accessible is highly
recommended for testing purposes
INSTALLATION

METHODOLOGY
R ESO U RCES & PLU GIN S
Criteria
Impact
Level
Description
plugins support 5
plugins overcome the limitation of the tool, it is
important to have them for extra support
Updates 5
Updates is the fundamental of improvement
and without it tools life cycles ends
version control 5
Organize the source code for developers and
product
RESOURCES
& PLUGINS

PART
Thre
e
Feature
Ease of
Use
Performanc
e
Resources
& Plugins
Installat
ion
Compatibil
ity

WORKSPACE
OR
MODULE
Eclipse use workspace which
contains different projects. It
will be convenient to include
project in developer’s other
projects; however, the
compiling takes more time for
multi projects.
Android Studio can only display
one project in one window
session; however, Android Studio
has nice feature for including
other projects, such as Maven,
Gradle, etc.
ANDROID STUDIOECLIPSE
EVALUATION
FE ATU R E (STR U CTU R E)
2 (Eclipse) VS 3 (AS)

EVALUATION
FE ATU R E (U SER IN TER FACE)
With typical structure of workspace which
will be suitable for most types of
development. With good usability but
lacking of beauty with modern style.
ECLIPSE
Example shows the new dark theme which
is popular in developers while Android
Studio made the progress of instance
preview of design.
ANDROID STUDIO
WORKSPACE
EDITOR PERSPECTIVE
OUTLINE
CONSOLE AND PROBLEM
PROJECT EDITOR
PREVIEW
ANDROID AND TERMINAL

EVALUATION
E A SE O F U SE (CO DE CO M PLE TIO N )
Both IDEs feature the standard Java code
auto completion. Android code auto
completion is available in Eclipse with ADT
bundle.
COMMON
In the case of Android Studio, Google has
baked in deeper support for specific
Android code and refactoring. Android
Studio can refactor your code in places
where it’s just not possible using Eclipse
and ADT. IntelliJ’s Java auto completion
seems more “intelligent” and predicts
better so there is definitely an
improvement in this area over Eclipse.
ANDROID STUDIO

22.80%
65.90%
5.80%
0.80%
4.70%
7.20%
65.10%
20.40%
5.20%
2%
16.50%
64%
11%
2.50%
4%
0.00%
10.00%
20.00%
30.00%
40.00%
50.00%
60.00%
70.00%
Ant Maven Gradle SBT None
Statistics of Different IDE Users
Eclipse Users IntelliJ IDEA Users Average of All IDEs

EVALUATION
E A SE O F U SE (GR A DLE & R ESO U RCE)
• Showcase View
• MaterialEditText
• Android-MaterialPreference
• Android-ObservableScrollView
• Material-ripple
• MaterialDesignLibrary
• QuickReturn
• ParallaxPagerTransformer
• Circular-progress-button
• AndroidSwipeLayout
• Material-dialogs
• EventBus
• Cardslib
• Android-Iconics
• Android-ActionItemBadge
• Android-Bootstrap
• PagerSlidingTabStrip
• SnackBar
18 LIBRARIES IN GITHUB
4
15
6
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
Jar Gradle Maven
Jar Gradle Maven

EVALUATION
CO M PATIBILIT Y (SYSTEM )
• Java 7 or higher is required if you are targeting
Android 5.0 and higher.
• Java 1.6 or higher is required if you are targeting
other releases.
• Eclipse Indigo (Version 3.7.2) or higher is required.
• This version of ADT is designed for use with SDK
Tools r24.1.2.
ECLIPSE WITH ADT
• Windows
• Microsoft® Windows® 8/7/Vista/2003 (32 or 64-bit)
• 2 GB RAM minimum, 4 GB RAM recommended
• 400 MB hard disk space
• At least 1 GB for Android SDK, emulator system images, and caches
• 1280 x 800 minimum screen resolution
• Java Development Kit (JDK) 7
• Optional for accelerated emulator: Intel® processor with support for
Intel® VT-x, Intel® EM64T (Intel® 64), and Execute Disable (XD) Bit
functionality
• Mac OS X
• Mac® OS X® 10.8.5 or higher, up to 10.9 (Mavericks)
• 2 GB RAM minimum, 4 GB RAM recommended
• 400 MB hard disk space
• At least 1 GB for Android SDK, emulator system images, and caches
• 1280 x 800 minimum screen resolution
• Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6
• Java Development Kit (JDK) 7
• Optional for accelerated emulator: Intel® processor with support for
Intel® VT-x, Intel® EM64T (Intel® 64), and Execute Disable (XD) Bit
functionality
ANDROID STUDIO

Unfortunately, Eclipse
doesn’t provide intelligent
migration from Android Studio
project
Android Studio provides
migration from Eclipse Android
project.
EVALUATION
CO M PATIBILIT Y (M IGR ATIO N )

EVALUATION
PER FO R M A NCE (M EM O RY U SAGE)
Takes approximately 476MB from start of
program without more load processes.
ECLIPSE WITH ADT
Takes approximately 675MB from start of program
without more load processes
ANDROID STUDIO

Take approximately 12
seconds for start-up time but
longer time in loading SDK.
Android Studio start slower in
21.61s but lower time in loading
SDK, while it may takes more
time on Gradle synchronization
in compiling stage.
EVALUATION
PER FO R M A NCE (STA RT U P
TIM E)
REAL
TEST

Eclipse
Bundle
Eclipse
ADT
Option 1: The Eclipse
bundle contains both
Eclipse IDE and ADT
plugins. (also need
JDK installed)
Option 2: Download
Eclipse IDE and ADT
bundle separately.
(also need JDK
installed)
EVALUATION
IN STA LL (SIM PLICIT Y)

Android
Studio
Android Studio install
package contains the full
functional part while only
needs the JDK support.
EVALUATION
IN STA LL (SIM PLICIT Y)

The SDK manager provides
the latest API for development.
Nevertheless, Google indicates
that developers team will
reduce their support for
Eclipse.
Provide latest SDK management
tool with full API support.
Currently, Android Studio use the
same SDK tool as Eclipse.
EVALUATION
SIM PLICIT Y (SDK ACCESS)

EVALUATION
R ESO U RCES (PLU GIN SU PPO RT)
Eclipse has more number of available
plugins but most of it is not designed for
Android development.
ECLIPSE
Android Studio can take part of available
IntelliJ plugins with 432 support number,
including Genymotion, Markdown, etc.
ANDROID STUDIO

79%
21%
Eclipse Android Studio
Eclipse
Android Studio
Eclipse has been released for 11 years
from 3.0 version started from 2004.
The newest version is 4.4 which is
known as Luna.
Android Studio was announced since
2013; however, it remained as beta
version until Nov, 2014. While now it
keeps its stable version 1.1.0.
EVALUATION
R ESO U RCES (U PDATES)

GIT
Need to install plugins for
version control tools, available
plugins:
• Egit (Git)
• Eclipse Subversion (SVN)
• etc
Has built support for version
control, built-in features
available:
• Git
• Subversion
• Mercurial
• etc
EVALUATION
R ESO U RCES (VER SIO N
CO N TRO L)

CONCLUSION
TO O L SCO R E CO M PA R ISO N
Features
Ease of Use
Compatibility
Performance
Installation
Resources and Plugins
TOTAL ANDROID STUDIO

CONCLUSION
ECLIPSE SCO R ES
Features
Ease of Use
Compatibility
Performance
Installation
Resources and Plugins
TOTAL ECLIPSE

CONCLUSION
TO O LS SCO R ES CO M PA R ISO N
Features
Ease of Use
Compatibility
Performance
Installation
Resources & Plugins
ECLIPSE
Features
Ease of Use
Compatibility
Performance
Installation
Resources & Plugins
ANDROID STUDIO

Android
Studio
Result
Eclipse
Android Studio did
not satisfy our
requirements in term
of memory usage
and updates
Since both did not
satisfy our studio
needs we can’t
recommend any of
the too.
Eclipse did not satisfy
our requirements in
term plugins support
CONCLUSION
M IN IM A L R EQ U IR EM EN TS
SATISFACTIO N

1 2
3 4
Other possibilities ?Find another Tool and Test it
Inform the Studio about the
results and let them decide
Re evaluate the criteria
CONCLUSION
W HAT IS N E X T

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