In this section I’ll give quick intro how to setup Android Studio and smoothly get to the working point where creativity should dominant developer’s interaction/battle with IDE and other possible technology layers. However this time we are dealing with IDE specialists from JetBrains coupled with skilled and innovative Google guys resulting in feature filled and smart product giving great insight in brighter developer future.

Skilled developers tend to stick to reliable and tested stuff and Early Access Preview probably would not trigger the global shift to new IDE. Speed surely attracts new developers but there is quite loyal user base Eclipse ADT (plugin) gained since it’s public release. Guys from JetBrains did great job with IntelliJ which is core for their other fantastic product and following statement might be taken as personal expression (I’m not related to JetBrains in any way) but they set really high standards for IDE quality with it’s surprisingly well speed of execution even though it is Java based which is essentially core problem that Eclipse struggles with and fails to solving it for pretty long period of time without any or at least strong future hopes because of architecture design quirks.

Technically speaking Android Studio is bunch of plugins – extension bundled together with IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition which is JetBrain’s free and open source Java IDE resulting in final product also being open source to broader community of skilled coders and possible maintainers. It is significant change in direction made to radically improve and overall simplify process of developing applications for Android platform.Ĭoncerning previous dedication to Eclipse based ADT switching to this new IDE, based on IntelliJ IDE platform is very surprising move. Yesterday, on their I/O 2013 event held at San Francisco, Google reveled brand new IDE for Android Developers.

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