In the case of developing a Android application there is nothing keeping you from using the tool of your choice to write the code in, and simply using what ever

In the case of developing a Android application there is nothing keeping you from using the tool of your choice to write the code in, and simply using what ever plugins are available to your editor of choice to run the compile steps, deployment to a device or an emulator etc. After all you only need a single line command to compile a properly configured Android project into a releasable APK. But when I want to write my code, get correct linting, inline documentation, Java-to-Kotlin conversion of old code, the whole range of interacting with the device I am running my code on, management of my Gradle tasks, VCS integration, Task contexts, remote connections to test databases (and the whole other metric ton of features I wont get into) I will always take Android Studio over what ever flavour of the year text editor. I really enjoy using VS code, but it is no IDE.