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I have had similar experience with Android Studio. I found very buggy and confusing since it constantly switches contexts and (seemingly) randomly re-shuffles t

by yoz-y 11y ago

I have had similar experience with Android Studio. I found very buggy and confusing since it constantly switches contexts and (seemingly) randomly re-shuffles the UI. (Building, debugging, running) I also found most of the pictograms thoroughly unhelpful. Nevertheless IntelliJ has a very good reputation so I suppose it is not the platform's fault.

V-2 11y ago
Pictogram toolbars are an idiotic invention, but you can get rid of them easily. Android Studio is highly customizable. It's not perfectly stable, but out of my experience (a bit dated now I admit) neither was Visual Studio. Eg. its infamous XAML designer is still haunting me in my dreams. As far as bread and butter of an IDE goes, meaning navigation, refactoring etc. JetBrains' software, along with its derivatives (Android Studio is a fork), is superior to VS imho. Then again it's a bit of apples vs. oranges here, VS is more heavy-weight and powerful, with its SQL integration and many many other features.