Android Studio
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
5recommend
7warn against
Nov 13, 2025first mention
Oct 31, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I use Android Studio on Linux for the vast majority of my development.”
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“Android Studio is actually pretty great”
developer who transitioned from Eclipse to Android Studioswitched from Eclipseon “Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding”
“the experience had less friction overall”
Caveats and dissent
“It manages to out bloat both Vivado and Quartus.”
“Android studio atill creates hundred of megabutea of hidden stuff on C:”
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“remaining on outdated IntelliJ Platform versions in Android Studio”
Android native devon “Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?”
“doing so would pretty much break everyone's CI setup”
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Who recommends it in their own words
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Data: android-studio.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 26
“Google has an agreement with Anthropic for the usage inside Android Studio.”
“since I have used Intellij and android studio a lot”
“I still had to download android studio and build the app but it was not difficult at all.”
“I used the emulator”
“I use Android Studio”
“I use Android Studio on Linux for the vast majority of my development.”
“It manages to out bloat both Vivado and Quartus.”
“Android studio atill creates hundred of megabutea of hidden stuff on C:”
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.
“remaining on outdated IntelliJ Platform versions in Android Studio”
“the IDEs themselves are open source”
“Android Studio with Blaze was the dominant IDE”
“All you need is a phone”
“Is Android Studio notably worse than IntelliJ?”
“Android Studio is a probably the best IDE for this usecase but is not the only way”
“Android Studio makes things easier”
“doing so would pretty much break everyone's CI setup”
“Now Android Studio is the product of Google's mess, and I am glad to have moved away from Android development”
“And I didn't expect Android-Studio to be open source!”
“Surprisingly, Android Studio is open source too”
“Android Studio is actually pretty great”
“the experience had less friction overall”
“than doing the way of AndroidStudio and/or Flutter stuff”
“without having to commit to launching Android Studio”
“stable Android Studio releases that crash on first use after upgrade”
“I expect the whole Rust build process being part of Android Studio”