I’m doing some Android development, and I much prefer Visual Studio, but I’ll have to use Eclipse for this.
Has anyone made a tool which can make Eclipse look and behave more like visual studio? I mainly can’t stand its clippyesqe suggestions on how I should program (Yes, I know I have not yet used that private field! Thanks Eclipse!), or its incredibly lousy intellisense.
For example, in eclipse, if I don’t type this first, its intellisense won’t realise I want to look for locally scoped members. Also, the TAB to complete VS convention is drilled into my head, and Eclipse is ENTER to complete, I could switch everything by hand but that would take hours, and I was hoping someone had some sort of theme or something that has already done it.
There are also other choices for Java IDEs. You’ve obviously found Eclipse, but you also may want to check out IntelliJ and NetBeans. IntelliJ is not free, but has a 30 day evaluation period and a Visual Studio key map 🙂
Shop around, find one that you like and start to use it heavily. They are all very good IDEs, and I’m sure once you use one for a while you’ll get comfortable with it.