Android fragmentation gets measured; 2012 is the year of Gingerbread. Fragmentation is a recurring issue that haunts the Android ecosystem in many ways. While Google’s latest version of the Android platform was intended in large part to address the issue — which many believe to have peaked when the software giant launched Android 3.0 Honeycomb and maintained two entirely separate versions of Android for smartphones and tablets — Ice Cream Sandwich has not yet done its job.
Four-and-a-half months since its debut, only 1% of Android devices currently run the unified Android 4.0 operating system according to Google’s own data. To compound matters, a recent report suggested Google may launch Android 5.0 Jelly Bean as soon as this summer. There is no question that fragmentation is a real issue for the Android platform, but is it really as big a deal as some make it out to be?
Fragmentation is an issue on two fronts. One the second front, fragmentation is an issue that directly affects users. The more interesting graph, however, might be this one: Get Started Guide. Norm Matloff's Tutorial on the Eclipse IDE Framework. Professor Norm Matloff University of California, Davis Contents: About Eclipse: Personally, I am NOT a fan of Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). They take up too much space on the screen; they tend to be slow to load; and worst of all, most of them force me to use their text editor, rather than the one I use for everything, Vim.
That latter point is important to me; over the years I've built up a number of shortcuts in my Vim startup file which save me typing, and I use Vim for everything I do--programming, word proceessing, Web development, e-mail and so on. Having said that, though, if I were to use any IDE, Eclipse would be the one. Eclipse is a framework for IDEs. Moreover, I actually can still use Vim, as an Eclipse plugin exists for it, called vimplugin. Eclipse is multi-platform, runnable on Linux, Windows (Cygwin or MinGW needed in the C/C++ case), etc.
Eclipse came out of the Websphere project at IBM. Quick Start: For a quick introduction to Eclipse, do the following: Views:
Android. UbiSlate.