I've been doing Android development since the G1 release. I agree with most of these points, but think they're also not a huge deal after you've been working wi

I've been doing Android development since the G1 release. I agree with most of these points, but think they're also not a huge deal after you've been working with the platform for awhile. The biggest issue is by far the iteration speed though. Build/install take way too long--Android Studio for some reason takes 15 seconds to start my app even if no changes have occurred. Instant run is supposed to solve this, but it's too buggy to be useable right now. Sometimes your changes just don't apply, but you never know if that happened or you messed up your fix. I actually preferred ant since I better understood what it was doing. Gradle error messages are often very vague and confusing, and build times are strangely inconsistent.