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Android Studio Impressions

I have some previous experience with Jetbrains IDE for Java development, IntelliJ. And I have a couple of years of experience using their Visual Studio plugin ReSharper.
I think both of the products are great and therefore I was happily surprised to see that Android Studio is built on the IntelliJ Platform.

If you know IntelliJ you will feel right at home using Android Studio. Of course there are several Android specific features, like automatic install of the Android SDK and support for starting and running your app directly on an Android emulator or on your own Android device.

You also have access to a built in layout editor that you can use to design the UI for your app. It has some similarities to the layout view in Visual Studio that you use when designing UIs for WPF applications (like drag and drop of visual components, properties listing, etc). Overall it is pretty neat and easy to understand and work in. Of course you still have the possibility to edit the underlying XML by hand.

Overall I think Android Studio is a really nice tool. Now I haven't been working with it for long, but as they say, first impression lasts.

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