Developer? If you’re someone who develop apps for mobile devices, then you may know, there are many softwares to develop apps from scratch out of them Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code – VSCode, is most popular choice for a lot of developers due to its developer friendly user interface with many developer tools and plugins to build app projects efficiently and effectively, but VSCode is desktop application, though there are ways to get VSCode on mobile devices but not sure about full desktop level compatibility, so it is recommended to utilize VSCode on desktop, but thing is some developers do not have or wish to code on desktop, right?
In case, you are someone who prefer to code and build app projects on mobile devices, then I guess you may probably already know number of mobile alternative to VSCode, isn’t it? If not then you may probably searching for integrated development environment inshort IDE app for development of apps on mobile itself, am I right? Well there are some IDE apps to build apps, out of them you have to pick right and reliable one to get started, according to your device operating system like Android and iOS etc, and as per requirements of app projects, so that you can work properly.
In sense, it’s important and necessary to choose such integrated development environment app that’s suitable and apt best for your app project, because there are different types of IDE apps available for mobile devices, like for instance to name few, we usually find dedicated and multi programming language IDE apps, basically if you only want to develop apps using Java then you can just select Java IDE including that there are specific and cross platform IDE apps as well, like you can choose Android or iOS only IDE, or cross platform supported IDE app to build apps for both OS’s, also make sure that IDE app is compatible for your device and app project usage purposes, like IDE app cost, resources, tools etc, Got it?
Especially, there is normal and gradle based integrated development environment – IDE apps apps, do you know about them? If you don’t then in simple, normal IDE apps are where you have to manually add .jar files and libraries etc required for app project, on your own and run building of apps, you may say that’s common, well yeah it’s how, for long time most developers build apps mainly for such app projects where you have to code everything from scratch with custom stuff, but in recent times the way developers build apps got changed significantly, due to emergence of many modern automated technologies, out of them IDE for gradle based apps are one.
Yeah, IDE’s which let you develop gradle based apps are latest technology, which is very useful for a lot of developers, here’s why, when you use gradle to develop apps, then gradle usually add .jar files and libraries etc required for app project by using gradle scripts, it will run, test and build apps automatically, gradle IDE’s will very likely work for those developers who develop apps with common .jar files, libraries etc, not custom ones, including that gradle has its own structure and let you automate tasks, with easy integration of IDE’s and CI/CDs like Android Studio, Jenkins, IntelliJ etc, thus with gradle you will be able to optimize and develop apps faster, isn’t that amazing?
The automation of gradle is what makes it special, and that’s why a lot of developers wish to have and use IDE’s which can develop gradle based apps, are you one of them? If so then fortunately I guess there are some IDE apps to develop gradle based apps, but at present finding free and open source IDE app to develop gradle based apps may take more time than usual, as they didn’t yet got much spotlight, anyway keep in mind, either IDE for normal or gradle based apps, When you make sure all is set in IDE app that you selected for developing apps then you won’t face hurdles and setbacks in your app projects.
Recently, we got to know about an free and open source IDE app to develop gradle based apps for Android devices named Android Studio Code – ACS, if you’re not aware the benefit of free and open source app is developer release app source code online, thus anyone can check it to verify its authenticity, and make sure its safe, including that find out whether the app claims are genuine, only when you feel those free and open source app is reliable with privacy and security, then only you may consider to use it, which is why a lot of folks wish to use free and open source apps, so being able to develop gradle based apps using free and open source IDE app is bonanza.
ACS is feature rich IDE app that let you develop real gradle based apps on Android devices, at present its in early stage so you may find some bugs and it comes with certain limitations like you must have to use or migrate existing Android Gradle Plugin to 7.20 or newer version, and thought SDK manager included in Android SDK and is accessible via ACS terminal, but you cannot install tools like NDK Including that ACS doesn’t support official NDK as they haven’t build NDK for Android yet, even then ACS is a solid IDE app and futuristic project, if you’re ok with ACS, shall we now explore visual interface of ACS? Are you ready? If yes then let’s get started.
• How to download ACS with official support •
– GitHub
– Website
• ACS key features with UI/UX overview •
Atlast, this are just highlighted features of Android Code Studio, there may be many hidden features in-build that provides you external benefits to give the ultimate usage experience, anyway if you want one of develop gradle based apps on Android devices, then at present Android Code Studio seems like on go worthy choice.
Overall, Android Code Studio has simple and clean intuitive user interface with dark mode by default, that ensures user friendly experience, but in any project there is always space for improvement, so let’s wait and see will Android Code Studio get any major UI changes to provide ultimate usage experience in future and make it even more better as of now, its super cool.
Moreover, it is definitely worth to mention Android Code Studio is one of the very few free IDE apps out there on world wide web of internet to develop gradle based apps on Android devices, yes indeed if you’re searching for such app then definitely Android Code Studio has potential to become your new favourite choice.
Finally, this is how you can develop gradle based apps on Android devices using Android Code Studio, so do you like it? Are you an existing user of Android Code Studio? If yes do say your experience and mention why you like Android Code Studio over other IDE apps available for same in our comment section below, see ya 🙂