Question

I would like to ask my fellow developers of their experience with eclipse.

I have recently started with eclipse and android, though the interface and development is not bad at all; but i have a major nagging issue.

Out of the blue eclipse or android compiler, am not sure, decides to go bonkers and misbehave. I spend so much time trying to debug and find errors in my code just to realize that a shutdown and restart of eclipse fixes it.

For example, one of my elements was returning null (using findViewById in android) – i spend about an hour trying to debug. Then decided to restart eclipse and it was fine. I wonder why?!

Is there anything that i ought to do ? ANything that i am missing with the eclipse settings. It really troubles me because it puts a brake on my development every now and then

Thanks

Answer 1

There are two general things that I suggest:

• Fire up the emulator from outside of eclipse at startup time and leave it running (if you don’t already do this).

• Add some memory to your development machine.