As a former Eclipse+ADT user, the key advantage of IntelliJ is stability. Eclipse+ADT crashed daily for me. IntelliJ might crash once a month. Given that the G

As a former Eclipse+ADT user, the key advantage of IntelliJ is stability. Eclipse+ADT crashed daily for me. IntelliJ might crash once a month. Given that the Google team is also shipping all of the new features for Android development in Android Studio first, you are giving up a whole lot more than just a few nice to have look and feel features by staying on the deprecated dev system. It was a pain in the ass to learn a new IDE, but as a professional Android developer it was a must to stick with the mainstream toolset.