> One problem, of course, is that Android Studio was not built from scratch; it’s based on the long-in-the-tooth IntelliJ IDEA platform, a Java IDE… and, well,

> One problem, of course, is that Android Studio was not built from scratch; it’s based on the long-in-the-tooth IntelliJ IDEA platform, a Java IDE… and, well, you can tell. It feels like fifteen-year-old software, and it’s all too apparent that it was adapted to, rather than built for, Android development. (Again: “Tools / Android.”) And, of course, it’s written in Java, which makes it multi-platform… but slow. If you get the feeling IntelliJ is a 15 year old software because it is slow, you should upgrade your computer. Get at least 8 gigs of RAM, an i7 or equivalent processor, and an SSD. If you do programming to earn your livelihood, that is a far better investment than switching to a text editor for speed.