New SDK 4.0. ·· News on API

oriolcasesfabregas over 4 years ago

Hi,

Where we can find documentation about news about SDK 4.0?

Is there any update on API?

Best regards,

Top Replies

jim_m_58 over 4 years ago in reply to Shent-Aurkhan (SHN) +2

My feeling is that at some point, support of the eclipse plugin will end, but I doubt it will be soon. What I did since back this was announced in October, was use both to get acquainted with VS code.…
jim_m_58 over 4 years ago in reply to flowstate +1

For people that have previously used VS Code, the switch might be easier. For people who haven't, and have used Eclipse for CIQ for a long time, it's not. The workflow is different, lots more use…
Nik over 4 years ago in reply to flowstate +1

I've been mostly developing Java EE for the last 20 years and been using InteliJ and Eclipse. I'm not against new IDEs and I'll have a look at VSC again and see how it has developed. I guess it's mostly…

All Replies

0 Travis.ConnectIQ over 4 years ago

I think this post should help you out.

https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/b/news-announcements/posts/welcome-to-connect-iq-4-0

0 Shent-Aurkhan (SHN) over 4 years ago in reply to Travis.ConnectIQ

hi,

I receive an email where was written "We are moving from Eclipse to the Visual Studio Code IDE."

Does it mean that Eclipse will be left behind in the futur or I translated it badly?

0 jim_m_58 over 4 years ago

Travis' link indicates what's in the preview to test.

There's more in 4,0 coming and you may see references in the docs included with the SDK, but in some cases, a device with 4.0 will be needed even in the sim.

0 jim_m_58 over 4 years ago in reply to Shent-Aurkhan (SHN)

My feeling is that at some point, support of the eclipse plugin will end, but I doubt it will be soon. What I did since back this was announced in October, was use both to get acquainted with VS code. using the same project folders in both That way you can do things like run in VS Code, while still using the app settings editor in eclipse.

0 Shent-Aurkhan (SHN) over 4 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Many thanks, I guess I will have to also.

0 phgerin over 4 years ago

Did I miss something with the new SDK ? Installed, tried to test it (Eclipse and VScode), but what can I build with it ?

0 jim_m_58 over 4 years ago in reply to phgerin

You can try your existing apps, and there's some things you can see in the sim or with side loading, in addition to monkey types, which is a compile time thing.

You can do things like stretch/shrink bitmaps to fit the screen. Using the widget template as a base, you can do things like this:

where the bitmaps is 75% of the screen size on all devices.

Another neat thing is that when you build an app, the launcher_icon is automatically properly sized for the target device.

Remember, this is only a preview and only the 1st, so there are other things still in the works, and you can't use it to build iq files right now. There will also be stuff that will only work on a target device with CIQ 4.0, but there aren't any of those right now.

0 phgerin over 4 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Ok, thank you Jim for the infos.

0 Nik over 4 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Personally, I'm a bit "meh" on VS Code, do you know what was the driving force behind the switch?

0 flowstate over 4 years ago in reply to Nik

I'm guessing because of relative popularity amongst devs, as well as a desire to (somewhat) modernize Connect IQ.

Speaking as someone who switched (professionally) from Eclipse to VS Code, it's like night and day. In terms of usability, there's no comparison, IMO. Eclipse is perceived to be slow, buggy, having a poor UX, etc. for very good reasons. (Also IMO).

(I've also used IntelliJ and I can see why pure Java developers love it compared to Eclipse. For anything other than pure Java development, I'd probably stick with VS Code.)

www.reddit.com/.../

VS Code isn't perfect, but the choice between Eclipse and VS Code is a no-brainer, IMO. (I'm also speaking as someone who used to be skeptical of VS Code, until I actually used it. I was actually one of the Eclipse apologists who was like "Eclipse isn't *that* bad...")

Anyway, regardless of whether VS Code is "objectively" "better", it makes sense to go where all the devs are.

https://wakatime.com/blog/43-wakatime-2020-programming-stats

(There's actually a lot of other editors in this list that I would prefer over Eclipse, too....)

Personally I can't wait until Monkey C in VS Code has full feature parity with the Eclipse Monkey C plugin, then I never have to open Eclipse ever again.