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Modern mobile development does not rely on text editors but IDEs and there is an huge difference between the twos. Google has the resources to build a text edi
by on_and_off 11y ago
Modern mobile development does not rely on text editors but IDEs and there is an huge difference between the twos.
Google has the resources to build a text editor, but an IDE ? that would take years and would still be unable to compete with XCode / Visual Studio.
So Google chose to take a great IDE, shower it in money and use it as the basis for their own tool.
That way, they automatically get everything Intellij already offers for Java : syntax colouring, smart refactoring, code flow analysis and so on and they can just focus on adapting the existing tools for Android and adding new ones (Lint, SysTrace, ... )
> It could also be optimized for Android development, unless that's what this "Android Studio" is.
That's pretty much what it is, I don't see how you could optimise it more for Android development.