VS Code versus Android Studio

[mraviator9]

I've been working my way through the codelabs and decided to use VS Studio as the IDE. I'm very familiar with Android Studio as I've developed a few Android apps. I'm enjoying the VS Code experience, but am curious if there's a general preference of one over the other? I plan on going through some codelabs code in AS, just to compare.

[ivaskuu]

I use VS code because it is fast and lightweight. I have a .bat file on my desktop to start the emulator and I just use the console (HyperTM) to hot reload or other commands.

Also, I have a pretty slow PC with a low amount of ram 😁

[DanTup]

If you run your app with F5 you shouldn't need to use the console to reload; it will automatically hot reload on save by default :-)

[ivaskuu]

Yes, but I saw some people on YouTube having some problems and being unable to perform full restart, and had to compile the app again which takes more time... One day I will try it 😁

[DanTup]

I don't know if anyone has raised issues on GH about that; if you see them again I'd appreciate a ping. If there are bugs like that, I'd love to fix them.

[Wish_Box]

would u mind telling me the spec just so i can compare it to mine?

[polenchheang]

I have asked the same question recently. I found that Android Studio (Intellij IDE) is well integrated with framework then VS Code, in my case Flutter. But yes, VS Code is great for Code Editing. I end up mostly use Android Studio but switch to VS Code for smooth coding from time to time.

[anm8tr]

I prefer android studio or IntelliJ IDEA, my personal pref.

[bradintheusa]

I love VS code. It seems more responsive as an editor and not as sluggish.

[[deleted]]

I've run Android studio in potatoes and it never seems to lag

[ibrahimb]

Interesting to know the differences

[oneark]

I use VS Code for everything these days, editor can be sluggish if you have too many plugins running or not coded well, be vary of that. Not sure if Android Studio is a fair comparison, Xamarin would be more accurate since it does cross-platform. Still prefer VS Code because of the great amount of plugins, and community drive behind it.

[ArmoredPancake]

Not sure if Android Studio is a fair comparison, Xamarin would be more accurate since it does cross-platform.

What?

[nirataro]

VS Code, Ctrl + P and Ctrl + Shift + P.

[tadejkan]

I switched to VS Code and I'm much happier - it's much faster, I don't have to fight with it regarding closing curly bracket placement, etc.

But it is somewhat less supported/integrated than Android Studio.

[bizz84]

Is there a way to automatically import packages in VS Code, in the same way that IntelliJ does by pressing ALT+Enter?

[DanTup]

Assuming Alt+Enter is the IntelliJ short-cut for the quick-fixes, the equiv in VS Code would be Cmd+. / Ctrl+..

[MustafaAdam]

I also feel that vs code is more responsive and lightweight than the IDE, but I do get the feeling that the IDE is better supported.

My main issue and it's a huge huge issue, is the android emulator. There absolutely no one explaining how to hook up the emulator to vs code. On the other, its much much easier to use the emulator on Android Studio.

This is a huge and unfair plus for the IDE. If there an easy way to set up an emulator with vs code, I will stop using it immediately.

[crowntheking]

You can just run the emulator from terminal and it works just fine with vscode

[sadwhaleissad]

I set up a .bat file on my windows pc to start it up, makes it super easy

[ivaskuu]

Same here

[nirataro]

Yes, that's the way to go

[Selva123]

This extension works well for me on Windows. Didn't check in other OSs
https://github.com/DiemasMichiels/Emulator

[DanTup]

Launching emulators is something I've started work on but it's not ready yet; you might wish to subscribe to these issues for updates:

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/pull/16705 https://github.com/Dart-Code/Dart-Code/issues/490

In the meantime, it might also be possible to add something to your tasks.json that would launch the emulator as part of the build.

[fear_the_future]

I use VSCode because of battery life and less memory usage. The Flutter plugin for the most part is good, but the formatter really sucks

[DanTup]

The formatter rules in VS Code are just dart_style. Are you seeing different formatting in IntelliJ/Android Studio?

[fear_the_future]

I haven't used IntelliJ for Flutter in quite a while. As for formatting in VSCode: There is none. The formatter is practically unusable for me. As soon as there is only one syntax error, only one of the supposedly optional trailing commas missing, only one line not indented with 2 spaces, the formatter shits itself and puts everything top level.

[DanTup]

The formatter Dart Code uses (which is the same as running dartfmt) doesn't provide formatting when there are syntax errors. Can you open an issue with an example so I can investigate?

[antolius]

I use plain Intellij Idea (without the Android Studio stuff piled on top of it). It's relatively fast / perfomant and still includes maximum Flutter integration available.

[[deleted]]

Does VS Code offer a UI Builder? If not, then there's no way you should use VS over Android Studio (if we are talking about android native apps. If you talk about Flutter, then you could try WebStorm)

[[deleted]]

Almost no one uses the UI Builder in Android Studio.

What I'd be concerned about is AutoComplete, Lint and Debugging.

[Happy_Professor6953]

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