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Stephane Bouchet updated JBIDE-27317:
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Story Points: 1
Deprecate Android Development Tools
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Key: JBIDE-27317
URL:
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/JBIDE-27317
Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
Issue Type: Bug
Components: central
Affects Versions: 4.16.0.AM1
Reporter: Josef Kopriva
Assignee: Stephane Bouchet
Priority: Major
Fix For: 4.16.0.Final
After discussion on slack, we should deprecate ADT:
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@jmaury @sbouchet @psrna @bodavis Hi, I was looking at Android Develpment tools(we have
it in CRS Central), but it seems to be it is not supported by Google for some time:
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2016/11/support-ended-for-eclip...
Bob Davis 3:06 PM
If it’s not supported/maintained, we should remove it, IMO
Stéphane Bouchet 3:16 PM
Currently it is listed on central, as tested, not deprecated.
as we did for last codeready release, we should first deprecate it before removing it
from central. (edited)
Bob Davis 3:18 PM
Agreed - if that’s the process, we should do that. It’s been deprecated by the upstream,
so we should follow suit. Is there a replacement we can direct people to? (should we worry
about that? I can try to see if we have any stats on usage)
Stéphane Bouchet 3:19 PM
Err, yes, the replacement is to use Android Studio, based on IDEA :smile:
Bob Davis 3:20 PM
Sigh…
Stéphane Bouchet 3:22 PM
yes, there was an alternative on eclipse,
https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.andmore, but no new release since 2017
:disappointed:
3:23
@maxandersen is listed on the contributors. maybe he can add a note ?
Bob Davis 3:36 PM
Isn’t @maxandersen listed as a contributor on most anything a person would want to use?
:joy:
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Max Rydahl Andersen 5:39 PM
I only do useful stuff :)
5:40
Andorid on eclipse is dead.
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