Android Studio vs. ServiceNow App Engine

Android Studio is the only platform you should consider for Android development. I have found that nothing else comes close in terms of documentation or support. There is always the temptation to develop for Android using a cross platform toolkit, such as Xamarin, but unless your app is incredibly simple, you will find your self wrestling with the toolkit more than actually creating your product. If you have any Android projects still in Eclipse, you should upgrade these to Android Studio - the backwards compatibility for older versions of Android is very good, with issues only occurring with debugging on older (Lollipop or below) devices. The only scenario Android Studio is not suitable for is cross-platform development. There is no way to share code between iOS, macOS, or Windows projects with Android Studio, unless you are developing a game in C++. If you wish to develop cross platform mobile apps, I suggest Microsoft Visual Studio.

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I suggest that people in ServiceNow start by building apps in App Engine through learning plans on the ServiceNow Developer site. It is a very guided process, and it is fun to do. Newcomers in ServiceNow can learn a lot about configuring tables, fields, behavior of fields, roles, Flows, UX, and many more. App Engine tends to make development work simpler and faster to ship. However, it can be a difficult concept for people new to ServiceNow to understand scoped applications. So there should be a brief on the App Engine homepage that mentions what can be built and includes a link to learn more about scoped apps.

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• It offers advanced code completion, and static analysis which speeds up coding and reduces errors.
• Gradle integration helps to easily generate different app versions from a single project without the need of coding for a separate project, for example, if I am supposed to create a two different versions, one meant for free users and other for paid users, Android Studio allows me to do so from a single project, which saves a lot of time.
• It provides real time information of CPU, mempry and network usage, which accordingly allows me to easily optimize the app.
• Powerful emulator with almost all the device stimulation for testing.

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• App Engine can be used by non-developers to create Applications on the go, without coding.
• App Engine has all the important aspects of the application available for adding or editing within a single record. Hence, it is easier to modify.
• App Engine has a delegated development option which can be granted to specific developers or groups to manage a specific area for Scoped App Development without giving admin rights.

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• Debugging is not that great, it can show some specific details for a better understanding of the issue.
• It is a RAM eater tool, its hard to do multitask along with the android studio.
• Sometimes after updating the android studio, we have to face so many random issues with the SDK or codes.

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• The scoped app prefix should be shorter to allow appropriate application naming if it exceeds the character limit. Either the scoped app name limit shall be increased, or the limit on scoped app prefixes shall be increased to allow better naming for scoped apps.
• It's challenging to make citizen development work at scale. Businesses want experienced pro code developers rather than citizen developers to work on this feature.

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There are limited use cases where we are just using the service now app engine as of now

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Android Studio is very useful for developers to write the code of Android apps. It provides auto implementation, suggestions, and removes boilerplate codes, which helps developers write clear and optimized code. Number of third party and Jetbrains plugins available to improve the speed of development and help the developer.

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Overall, very much usable for anything that happens in organisation. Able to track and discover each asset in the underlying infrastructure of the organisation and manage them. It is easy to understand the impact if any asset fails and hence risk mitigation becomes easier. It is a simple tool but with everything an organisation requires to go live with maximum customer impact and satisfaction

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Almost 100% available on time

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Overall support for Android Studio is quite good. As the project is maintained by Google itself, frequent updates are usually made to Android Studio to keep the IDE update and bug-free. Many community forums are also available to help developers across the world if they face any issue.

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They tried their best to resolve our queries every time we contacted them about any technical support

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App engine can be used just to process the minimal amount of the data which is being received from the user. We are service now catalogue items or any other data technology.

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I am primarily a Java developer so many of the IDEs I have used are specifically made for Java development. I have used IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, and NetBeans for Java development but Android Studio is far better for Android development specifically and it also has support for things like Flutter development. VS Code is quickly becoming popular across languages but Android Studio is still at the top in my opinion.

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There were no options from the other products because ServiceNow App Engine is a large product with many different modules, growing each year, which allows you to recreate your business processes in a very short time, making the migration to ServiceNow very easy.

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It is scalable but not reliable

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• Due to Android Studio's day by day improvement, our company is making Android applications in more and more effective and efficient ways.
• 24x7 support from Google and JetBrains is making our work running 24x7 smoother, and making our clients happier and happier day by day.
• Due to the awesome animation and transition tricks, we are providing our clients more than they expected.

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• We have managed to close the un applied cash item from 56% to 89% in a given five working days period by using ServiceNow App Engine
• By automating and entire money laundering process, we have managed to provide the background check data as quickly as within a day, which was actually taking weeks Same reports when we were doing the things manually.

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