{"slug": "android-studio", "name": "Android Studio", "category": "editors", "category_name": "Editors and IDEs", "description": "", "recommenders": 5, "commenters": 24, "warners": 7, "score": 1.167, "rising": -0.31, "first": "2025-11-13", "latest": "2026-10-31", "why": "I use Android Studio on Linux for the vast majority of my development.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 5, "neutral": 10, "compare": 3, "warn": 8}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I use Android Studio on Linux for the vast majority of my development.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "googlesource.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://developer.android.com/studio", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Android Studio"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 787734097, "item_id": 49233381, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233381", "by": "flax", "date": "2026-08-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Android Studio on Linux for the vast majority of my development.", "excerpt": "You're right that to deploy an app to Apple's app store you have to pay them. The $100/yr access ransom is unavoidable if you want to have the option of making money there. But I've gone to great lengths to avoid the rest of the stuff that genuinely sucks about building for Apple: I use Flutter to avoid most of the iOS nonsense. I use Android Studio on Linux for the vast majority of my development. I target Android/w", "context": "", "use_case": "app development on Linux", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change"}, {"id": 767066496, "item_id": 47941656, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941656", "by": "Gander5739", "date": "2026-04-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "All you need is a phone", "excerpt": "All you need is a phone: https://github.com/atamshkai/Android-Studio-On-Android-Phone", "context": "", "use_case": "Android app dev on phone", "switched_from": "", "story": "Phone is about to stop being yours"}, {"id": 763146224, "item_id": 47696639, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696639", "by": "Antonito", "date": "2026-04-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Android Studio makes things easier", "excerpt": "As others have stated it's possible, but might be cumbersome. I made an example of an iOS/Android monorepo with a shared Rust core a few months ago: https://github.com/Antonito/bazel-app-core-native-example/ You do need the Android SDK to build, Android Studio makes things easier (even though the Bazel IDE plugin is a whole other topic itself..) but isn't mandatory to develop or run your app.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Expanding Swift's IDE Support"}, {"id": 750133488, "item_id": 46883343, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46883343", "by": "billynomates", "date": "2026-02-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Android Studio is actually pretty great", "excerpt": "As someone who use Eclipse and transitioned to Android Studio over the course of my career, Android Studio is actually pretty great. These days I use Cursor almost exclusively for Flutter, but Android Studio is great for building native Android apps.", "context": "developer who transitioned from Eclipse to Android Studio", "use_case": "Native Android app development", "switched_from": "Eclipse", "story": "Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding"}, {"id": 750017761, "item_id": 46876110, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46876110", "by": "ASalazarMX", "date": "2026-02-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "the experience had less friction overall", "excerpt": "> I've been using XCode for 10 years. For me, it's only improved and I don't have any real pain points. This means you've learned to work around its shortcomings. A decade ago I used to develop in PyCharm for websites, and Visual Studio .Net for desktop apps. Then I had to learn XCode for a mobile app. It was a surreal experience, like going back ten years in UX, while at the same time dealing with a myriad of modern", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 784420544, "item_id": 49026284, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49026284", "by": "dlcarrier", "date": "2026-07-23", "stance": "warn", "quote": "It manages to out bloat both Vivado and Quartus.", "excerpt": "I used to think EDA tools for FPGAs were the absolute worst development environment, until I wanted to modify an open-source application on my phone, and tried to install and run Android Studio. It manages to out bloat both Vivado and Quartus. At least I wouldn't need to buy a special computer to run it, like the Xcode development environment for iOS. I've ended up using Yosys from a command line, while editing the f", "context": "", "use_case": "Android app development", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Write, simulate and synthesize VHDL/Verilog in the browser"}, {"id": 783015968, "item_id": 48938498, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48938498", "by": "rvba", "date": "2026-07-16", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Android studio atill creates hundred of megabutea of hidden stuff on C:", "excerpt": "I saw those and sadly none of those works not provides solution to \"Error: stream failed\" that happens like clockwork. I found this one: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/toolbox-app/remote-agent-timeout-machanism.html#configuration But it requires me to reinstall android studio because jetbrains toolbox cannot find it... because I installed ir on D: On a side note Android studio atill creates hundred of megabutea of hi", "context": "", "use_case": "Android app development IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/SEC on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU"}, {"id": 773430688, "item_id": 48339418, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339418", "by": "bpavuk", "date": "2026-05-30", "stance": "warn", "quote": "remaining on outdated IntelliJ Platform versions in Android Studio", "excerpt": "Android native dev here. > What is going on in the world of pure IOS/Android app development? I'll speak only for Android. I am tired of Google breaking source compatibility with every AndroidX release and remaining on outdated IntelliJ Platform versions in Android Studio. not too long ago, Google released AGP 9.0, which was a SHOCKWAVE for many Android projects. many compiler plugins' compatibility, including Google", "context": "Android native dev", "use_case": "Android development", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?"}, {"id": 763145201, "item_id": 47696575, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696575", "by": "tadfisher", "date": "2026-04-08", "stance": "warn", "quote": "doing so would pretty much break everyone's CI setup", "excerpt": "This is not an expectation, no. Libraries are managed via Gradle or whatever build system you use. Android-specific host tools are Gradle-managed, installed via the sdkmanager tool, or managed via other means; I maintain a repository to install them via Nix [0], and many Linux distributions package them. The Android Studio IDE is not required, and doing so would pretty much break everyone's CI setup. 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Yes people are getting away with it. That does not mean it's allowed. Anthropic could clarify their terms any day and they don't, on pu", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age"}, {"id": 803515905, "item_id": 50219744, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219744", "by": "justauserid", "date": "2026-10-24", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "since I have used Intellij and android studio a lot", "excerpt": "I would like to use a harness that integerates with an IDE very easily. This will be helpful for me when coding in a language I largely don't know. I can kinda check things quickly in front of me. I know it just needs an editor and maybe a language server setup \u2013 but the cost of visual context switching is still costly heavy for us humans. Often things out of sight are also out of mind. I was aiming for VS Code but s", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "ThinkRail from JetBrains"}, {"id": 801946369, "item_id": 50121648, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50121648", "by": "BizarroLand", "date": "2026-10-16", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I still had to download android studio and build the app but it was not difficult at all.", "excerpt": "I work in the courtrooms sometimes for some lawsuits and we use the ATEM Mini Pro to switch between ipads and pcs for both defense and plaintiffs sides. Normally, when I'm running tech, the switcher is right next to me, easy peasy. But recently I've been in cases where I have to sit far away due to the court layouts. They can be controlled over network, but our setup requires that the devices have no internet connect", "context": "works tech in courtrooms", "use_case": "building Android app", "switched_from": "", "story": "Using AI to reverse engineer hardware"}, {"id": 794380112, "item_id": 49648757, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648757", "by": "atonse", "date": "2026-09-10", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used the emulator", "excerpt": "I used the emulator - but just like I can use an iOS app for 30 seconds and tell you whether it feels native or not, I can't do the same for Android, since I'm not a daily user of Android phones. And in the past, I didn't care because when I was manually building the app, I would just do my best with react native. But now that I can actually sweat the details (with the help of agents), I do want to hear from android ", "context": "iOS-focused app developer", "use_case": "testing Android app", "switched_from": "", "story": "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"}, {"id": 791843328, "item_id": 49490208, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49490208", "by": "Zigurd", "date": "2026-08-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Android Studio", "excerpt": "Lately I've been developing in Dart/Flutter. I use Android Studio but I know developers who use Antigravity and like it. For the past three or four months it's performed very well, even the cheaper Gemini models. No serious complaints. But if you go back a year it was pretty terrible. My work style is to keep the coding agent on a short leash so YMMV.", "context": "developing in Dart/Flutter", "use_case": "Dart/Flutter development", "switched_from": "", "story": "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"}, {"id": 787734097, "item_id": 49233381, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233381", "by": "flax", "date": "2026-08-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Android Studio on Linux for the vast majority of my development.", "excerpt": "You're right that to deploy an app to Apple's app store you have to pay them. The $100/yr access ransom is unavoidable if you want to have the option of making money there. But I've gone to great lengths to avoid the rest of the stuff that genuinely sucks about building for Apple: I use Flutter to avoid most of the iOS nonsense. I use Android Studio on Linux for the vast majority of my development. I target Android/w", "context": "", "use_case": "app development on Linux", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change"}, {"id": 784420544, "item_id": 49026284, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49026284", "by": "dlcarrier", "date": "2026-07-23", "stance": "warn", "quote": "It manages to out bloat both Vivado and Quartus.", "excerpt": "I used to think EDA tools for FPGAs were the absolute worst development environment, until I wanted to modify an open-source application on my phone, and tried to install and run Android Studio. It manages to out bloat both Vivado and Quartus. At least I wouldn't need to buy a special computer to run it, like the Xcode development environment for iOS. I've ended up using Yosys from a command line, while editing the f", "context": "", "use_case": "Android app development", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Write, simulate and synthesize VHDL/Verilog in the browser"}, {"id": 783015968, "item_id": 48938498, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48938498", "by": "rvba", "date": "2026-07-16", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Android studio atill creates hundred of megabutea of hidden stuff on C:", "excerpt": "I saw those and sadly none of those works not provides solution to \"Error: stream failed\" that happens like clockwork. I found this one: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/toolbox-app/remote-agent-timeout-machanism.html#configuration But it requires me to reinstall android studio because jetbrains toolbox cannot find it... because I installed ir on D: On a side note Android studio atill creates hundred of megabutea of hi", "context": "", "use_case": "Android app development IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/SEC on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU"}, {"id": 782800624, "item_id": 48925039, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925039", "by": "NortySpock", "date": "2026-07-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "If the local model is served via ollama, there's a default timeout of 10 minutes , which can be adjusted either per-call , or (as I did) in the systemd service environment variables https://docs.ollama.com/faq#how-do-i-keep-a-model-loaded-in-memory-or-make-it-unload-immediately You didn't specify what was serving your local model.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/SEC on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU"}, {"id": 773430688, "item_id": 48339418, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339418", "by": "bpavuk", "date": "2026-05-30", "stance": "warn", "quote": "remaining on outdated IntelliJ Platform versions in Android Studio", "excerpt": "Android native dev here. > What is going on in the world of pure IOS/Android app development? I'll speak only for Android. I am tired of Google breaking source compatibility with every AndroidX release and remaining on outdated IntelliJ Platform versions in Android Studio. not too long ago, Google released AGP 9.0, which was a SHOCKWAVE for many Android projects. many compiler plugins' compatibility, including Google", "context": "Android native dev", "use_case": "Android development", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?"}, {"id": 771601778, "item_id": 48225111, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225111", "by": "coder543", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "the IDEs themselves are open source", "excerpt": "Closed source? IntelliJ: https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community PyCharm: https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/tree/master/python#intellij-platform-open-source-repository-pycharm Android Studio: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/adt/idea/+/refs/heads/mirror-goog-studio-master-dev#android-studio Yes, they might offer extended proprietary editions/plugins in addition, but the IDEs thems", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch"}, {"id": 770001781, "item_id": 48125111, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125111", "by": "nostrademons", "date": "2026-05-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Android Studio with Blaze was the dominant IDE", "excerpt": "Was there 2009-2014 and then again 2020-2026. I think there are a lot of aspects of IDE use and culture at Google that this post omits. My recollection from 2009-2011 is that emacs and vim were the dominant editors (just as the TV show Silicon Valley depicted), and there was a decent-sized minority using Eclipse and Intellij, both of which had official support for Google tooling. The command line still largely ruled ", "context": "former Googler, left 2026", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "A History of IDEs at Google"}, {"id": 767066496, "item_id": 47941656, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941656", "by": "Gander5739", "date": "2026-04-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "All you need is a phone", "excerpt": "All you need is a phone: https://github.com/atamshkai/Android-Studio-On-Android-Phone", "context": "", "use_case": "Android app dev on phone", "switched_from": "", "story": "Phone is about to stop being yours"}, {"id": 764965920, "item_id": 47810370, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47810370", "by": "hbn", "date": "2026-04-17", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Is Android Studio notably worse than IntelliJ?", "excerpt": "I haven't touched Android dev in the better part of a decade. Is Android Studio notably worse than IntelliJ? Cause I use that every day for work and I love it.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent"}, {"id": 763167568, "item_id": 47697973, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697973", "by": "c0balt", "date": "2026-04-08", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Android Studio is a probably the best IDE for this usecase but is not the only way", "excerpt": "Are you sure about that? Flutter development for Android works great in VS Code/Codium. The Android extension [0] for VS Code has also worked fine in the past on a small Java-based App for me. Android Studio is a probably the best IDE for this usecase but is not the only way. [0]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=adelphes.android-dev-ext", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Expanding Swift's IDE Support"}, {"id": 763146224, "item_id": 47696639, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696639", "by": "Antonito", "date": "2026-04-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Android Studio makes things easier", "excerpt": "As others have stated it's possible, but might be cumbersome. I made an example of an iOS/Android monorepo with a shared Rust core a few months ago: https://github.com/Antonito/bazel-app-core-native-example/ You do need the Android SDK to build, Android Studio makes things easier (even though the Bazel IDE plugin is a whole other topic itself..) but isn't mandatory to develop or run your app.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Expanding Swift's IDE Support"}, {"id": 763145201, "item_id": 47696575, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696575", "by": "tadfisher", "date": "2026-04-08", "stance": "warn", "quote": "doing so would pretty much break everyone's CI setup", "excerpt": "This is not an expectation, no. Libraries are managed via Gradle or whatever build system you use. Android-specific host tools are Gradle-managed, installed via the sdkmanager tool, or managed via other means; I maintain a repository to install them via Nix [0], and many Linux distributions package them. The Android Studio IDE is not required, and doing so would pretty much break everyone's CI setup. [0]: https://git", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Expanding Swift's IDE Support"}, {"id": 755678160, "item_id": 47229885, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47229885", "by": "pjmlp", "date": "2026-03-03", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Now Android Studio is the product of Google's mess, and I am glad to have moved away from Android development", "excerpt": "Welcome to Smalltalk, Lisp, Java and .NET, which alongside NeXTSTEP/OS X, share a common linage of tooling ideas, and programming language features. Hence why given the option I rather stay in such environments. Now Android Studio is the product of Google's mess, and I am glad to have moved away from Android development, it also doesn't have anything to do with enjoying pure Java development on desktop (Swing, SWT, J", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why Objective-C"}, {"id": 753585232, "item_id": 47099077, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47099077", "by": "palata", "date": "2026-02-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "And I didn't expect Android-Studio to be open source!", "excerpt": "Oh is it Apache 2? That's what I see looking at a random file [1] but there is no global LICENSE file. And I didn't expect Android-Studio to be open source! 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[1]: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/sdk/+/refs/heads/main [2]: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/base/+/studio-master-dev/source.md", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "F-Droid: \"Keep Android Open\""}, {"id": 750133488, "item_id": 46883343, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46883343", "by": "billynomates", "date": "2026-02-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Android Studio is actually pretty great", "excerpt": "As someone who use Eclipse and transitioned to Android Studio over the course of my career, Android Studio is actually pretty great. These days I use Cursor almost exclusively for Flutter, but Android Studio is great for building native Android apps.", "context": "developer who transitioned from Eclipse to Android Studio", "use_case": "Native Android app development", "switched_from": "Eclipse", "story": "Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding"}, {"id": 750017761, "item_id": 46876110, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46876110", "by": "ASalazarMX", "date": "2026-02-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "the experience had less friction overall", "excerpt": "> I've been using XCode for 10 years. For me, it's only improved and I don't have any real pain points. This means you've learned to work around its shortcomings. A decade ago I used to develop in PyCharm for websites, and Visual Studio .Net for desktop apps. Then I had to learn XCode for a mobile app. It was a surreal experience, like going back ten years in UX, while at the same time dealing with a myriad of modern", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding"}, {"id": 749212145, "item_id": 46825759, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46825759", "by": "_rousbound", "date": "2026-01-30", "stance": "compare", "quote": "than doing the way of AndroidStudio and/or Flutter stuff", "excerpt": "I wonder the same thing, but with an emphasis on app mobile development. Godot from project setup to running on my Android is way more effortless/lightweight experience than doing the way of AndroidStudio and/or Flutter stuff. What I dream of is making a Lua binding for essential godot GUI control nodes using GDExtension and using this LibGodot to own the engine loop, so I can do all the app code in Lua. So, I may ha", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow"}, {"id": 745411297, "item_id": 46588206, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46588206", "by": "0dayman", "date": "2026-01-12", "stance": "warn", "quote": "without having to commit to launching Android Studio", "excerpt": "I'm building ADB Remote from the sole desire to be able to do Android development without having to commit to launching Android Studio. ADB Remote wraps common ADB and Gradle operations into a single interface. Useful for quick tasks like checking LogCat, managing devices, running builds, or testing a specific Git branch. What it does: File Explorer: Browse your project files and open them directly in your terminal/e", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026)"}, {"id": 737681441, "item_id": 46105090, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46105090", "by": "pjmlp", "date": "2025-12-01", "stance": "warn", "quote": "stable Android Studio releases that crash on first use after upgrade", "excerpt": "Gradle is only still around thanks to Android, thankfully I have moved away from Android projects. No need to read about how Kotlin is going to take over the world, while comparing it to samples written in Java 8, or the whole tooling infrastructure mess that needs to be changed, sorry improved, for each Google I/O, or stable Android Studio releases that crash on first use after upgrade, while \"fixing\" Gradle DSL cha", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Origins of Scala (2009)"}, {"id": 734734288, "item_id": 45920893, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920893", "by": "pjmlp", "date": "2025-11-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I expect the whole Rust build process being part of Android Studio", "excerpt": "I expect Rust being documented here, https://developer.android.com/ndk I expect the whole Rust build process being part of Android Studio, including mixed language debugging between Java, Kotlin and Rust. I expect all NDK APIs to have Rust bidding crates. I expect that Android developer forums also care to support devs using Rust. And anything else that I forgot to mentioned, that is provided for Java, Kotlin, C and ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Rust in Android: move fast and fix things"}]}