Android Needs A Simulator, Not An Emulator

1 · Jake Wharton · June 16, 2014, midnight
Two years ago I wrote a blog post complaining that the Android build system was broken. At the time, Eclipse ADT and Ant were the blessed solutions and they just hadn’t scaled with the platform. Third-party solutions existed for both tooling and IDE but they always felt a bit illegitimate and at risk for problems. My post joined the cries of others who knew that something had to be done. Xavier Ducrohet swooped in and dropped a bomb on the resulting Google+ thread: “We are looking at revamping t...