Wish Unified IDE

[Troberg]

This is not a specific B4A wish, but it had to go somewhere...

My idea (and I realize that it's probably far from trivial), is a unified IDE for B4A, B4J and B4i.

I'm not talking about them sharing the same IDE code and look, I'm talking about making a single IDE. Include some precompiler directives to make code conditional depending on platform, such as #If IsAndroid, #If IsJava, #If IsiDevice.

That way, it would be easier to have a common code base, with just parts different between platforms, and you simply select "Build Android", "Build Java" et cetera when you build.

Yes, you can achieve a somewhat similar effect by using your own symbols to control #If's, and then switching IDEs, but it wouldn't be quite the same.

Also, from a marketing viewpoint, having a true multiplatform dev environment would be a huge attention getter.

 

[Erel]

Note that there already built in precompiler directives that allow you to distinguish between the platforms: B4A, B4J and B4i. You can use the shared modules feature to reuse the same module on multiple projects.

 

[Troberg]

Then we are (on paper) halfway there!

On the other hand, if we talk about needed work, the halfway point is probably still on the horizon somewhere...