Question

I am developing an Android app on my Windows 7 Home PC using Eclipse. I have just bought a laptop and would like to be able to take my project with me on the laptop. I have installed Eclipse and the Android SDK etc on the laptop and using a usb memory stick carried the project folders over to the laptop. I then used import to install my project into the laptop Eclipse environment. So far so good. Now if I make changes on my PC what would be the simplest way to update the project on the laptop. I have read on here about git etc but don’t want to get into that complexity just yet.

Answer 1

Using Dropbox would be an option and it would definitely be kind of easy.

But I think you should simply use a Revision Control System like GIT (there are a lot more). You might be a little bit more difficult than using Dropbox in the beginning but it will be more comfortable than Dropbox after a short while.

Git has the advantage that it is a distributed revision control system (no server required).

You might want to have a look at these questions:

• What is the Difference Between Mercurial and Git?
• Git for beginners: The definitive practical guide

and here are many more:

• Highest Voted ‘version-control’ Questions – Stack Overflow