Building My Own Mac Working Environment

In recent 2 years, I have switched my own working environment from Windows to Ubuntu and Mac. For the reason that I switched C/C++ development for Windows to Java development for Android. But I still prefer C++, so I won’t give up C/C++ programming. In this article I will write down detail steps that how I build working environment. This working environment on Mac is a general working environment, not just for Android development but also C/C++ development. Let’s start!

First, I would install some universal tools.

Universal Tools

Install and configure Oh my zsh

• Install via curl or wget

via curl

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

via wget

sh -c "$(wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh -O -)"

• Configure my prefer feature via edit .zshrc file

Add this line to .zshrc file

plugins=(git vi-mode adb)

Install and configure iTerm

• Install lastest release dmg

• Clone solarized git project from github and import color scheme for iTerm2

  git clone https://github.com/altercation/solarized.git
  cd iterm2-colors-solarized
  ./Solarized Dark.itermcolors
  

  Install userful command line tools

• Install brew - ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

• Install ctags - brew install ctags

• Install cscope - brew install cscope

• Install ag - brew install ag

• Install grip - brew install grip

Install and configure Vim

• Install vim via source

  git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git
  cd vim 
  ./configure --with-features=huge --enable-gui=gnome2 --enable-pythoninterp=yes --enable-cscope --enable-gui=auto \ --enable-gtk2-check --enable-gnome-check \ --enable-fail-if-missing --enable-multibyte --enable-fontset \ --with-x --with-compiledby="Tao He"
  make
  sudo make install
  

• Configure vim

  cd ~
  git clone https://github.com/longlinht/vimrc.git ~/.vim_runtime
  sh ~/.vim_runtime/install_awesome_vimrc.sh
  

  Utilities

• Install Alfred

• Install Dropbox

• Install NutsCloud

Install IDE

Install and configure Android Studio

• Install Android Studio via dmg

• Install and configure ideavim plugin

  Install ideavim in Android Studio
  git clone https://github.com/longlinht/VimForIDEs.git
  In Android Studio -> File ->Import Settings -> Choose VimForIDEs/ideavim/monokai/settings.jar
  

There are some userful application I have installed, but I don’t want to list them becasue their easy installation. Until now, I work comfortably in this woking environment. Maybe I will develop a script to automate this process in the future. If I make it done, I would update this article and supply this script.