I'm studying business informatics in the first semester and have a rather old laptop (Dell Latitude e6430, i7 3rd Gen, 16GB RAM), the battery life of which is really bad due to the old components (less than an hour). I bought a tablet privately (Samsung Galaxy Tab s6 Lite, 4GB RAM) and am mostly learning on the tablet. Since it runs on Android, I'm unfortunately still tied to my laptop when it comes to programming. Is there a way to install and use Java Eclipse on my (Android) tablet? I try to avoid installing a Windows emulator, as that would use up a lot of the already little RAM. I've looked a little on the Internet and the sites that offer a download don't look very serious: /
Can someone bring me some light into the dark?
Unfortunately I have to disappoint you, programming on a tablet / Ipad is mostly impossible.
You will not be able to complete a degree with IT components only on a tablet; sensible software development is not possible with it.
Your laptop is definitely well equipped enough for programming. If it only fails with the battery, see if you can afford a new battery.
The best thing to do is to buy a decent laptop.
Unfortunately, I have to join EnderLuca.
Especially with regard to Eclipse… The thing is… Kind of bulky and sluggish and needs a powerful host.
It's because my components are all very old and drain on electricity. I bought a new battery but it didn't really help.
I checked on my laptop how much RAM and processor power Eclipse uses and that would actually work with my tablet
I passed on a very similar model from earlier work to my daughter - Windows thrown down, Lubuntu on and it will probably serve well for a few more years. Sure, it doesn't have the battery life of an M1 Macbook, but the performance is more than adequate.
OK I don't want to contradict that. I only tried to develop with https://www.eclipse.org/pdt/ a few years ago. And it simply consumed a lot of resources. It would never have occurred to me to try that with a tablet… But I'm already a day older and would never code on a tablet anyway. In this respect, I'll leave the topic to the younger respondents. Maybe I'll learn something else.
No money:/
Just ask your parents
My problem now is not only the battery life, but also that I'm often not at home and then have to lug my laptop with me. I always have my tablet with me and therefore thought about it and asked myself whether it might not work that way… Well, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work - a shame
I live alone and my parents can't help me (but not now because I live alone): //
Does your laptop run Windows or Linux?
So I don't have to do any professional work with eclpise, but e.g. Create simple arrays or loops (I'm not quite as sure how to formulate them). Eclipse used to use less than 2GB of RAM on my laptop
Windows 10 Pro 64Bit
Have you ever thought about replacing Windows with Ubuntu, for example? Linux needs less power
Phew… Well, there shouldn't be any problems for simple things. As a computer science student, you will probably even manage to get the whole thing running on Android at some point. Probably most likely with a Linux-related distribution. Just why Wouldn't it be easier to give your old laptop a little more memory (doesn't have to be a lot) and an SSD? Then put a Linux OS (Ubuntu maybe?) On it and get started?
I just can't think of a sensible solution for the tablet solution.
The only problem is the battery life, I would be well equipped with everything else on the laptop. I have already replaced the battery, switched off the graphics card and use the internal one of the processor. Unfortunately no great successes
Hmm OK, if everything only ends with the battery life and everything else works, you are probably faced with the usual problem with mobile devices: They still blow most of the energy when the display is active. And if you switch off the display, it will be difficult to program something ^^
I think the last tip I can give is: always try to scale the hardware about 1-2 thirds higher than the software you want to use. Not at all because the manufacturer's specifications are incorrect with the minimum hardware requirements, but rather because hardware that only creates something with oh and no noise in the end has significantly higher wear and tear than appropriate hardware.
