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Originally Posted by Smudgeous
Playing devil's advocate here, I must commend CMOS for being helpful.
His argument (stating that Android/iOS devices can't be compared to PCs since they're all designed on PCs) got me investigating Android compiler/IDE apps. If it weren't for him, I would not have discovered AIDE, which is for all intents and purposes Eclipse on Android (they even share the same price tag  ).
I think I now have a new side project machine of choice  |
Eclipse is just a java app. Since most android development is in Java, it isn't surprising that there would be a JRE on it by default. Netbeans is also a Java IDE written in Java, but a lot of people love Eclipse for whatever reason. I have had nothing but buggy experiences with Eclipse. IntelliJ and Netbeans work great and good respectively. (Disclaimer, I stopped using eclipse after Helios. So the newer version *might* have addressed some of the bugs. Not sure though).
The talk of PC vs. Android was pretty off topic for this thread. But shining light on what the real price of the Android HU is was definitely beneficial though. The unit in listed in this thread definitely seems worth $250 to $350 for what it does.