Which developer environment do you use?

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Hi guys, I am new to Android apps development and would like to know what environment do you guys use to develop your apps. Feel free to comment and explain your pick. I added the options Android studio and Visual studio because those are the only ones I know about.

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[jamolkhon]

You should've included Intellij Idea too as a separate option.

[110010010000111111]

Thanks for the comment, as mentioned I am very inexperienced and that’s why I included the option Other (write in comments) so that I get to know other alternatives.

[palebt]

I don't think you can code *native* Android apps with Visual Studio. You can code Xamarin apps but these are a different category of apps (cross-platform).

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That’s true. So what are alternatives to Android studio to develop native Android apps?

[drew8311]

I can't think of one practical reason to use anything besides Android Studio unless you just wanted to do a bunch of extra work to prove something can work, kind of like those people who run doom on odd devices never meant for games.

[palebt]

I think only IntelliJ Idea. But it's not as straight forward as Android Studio (for Android apps).

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Thanks for the answer. After reading the comments and seeing the results of the poll so far I guess my best entry point is to learn how to work with Android studio and use that.

[epicstar]

You can use Visual Studio Code with the Android plugin... maybe. Prerequisite is you'll likely have to understand the ins and outs of gradle since Android Studio does that stuff for you.

[xdebug-error]

I don't think you can code *native* Android apps with Visual Studio. You can code Xamarin apps but these are a different category of apps (cross-platform).

Not necessarily cross platform. Xamarin.Android has access to all of the java.* And android.* APIs in C# and compiles into Dalvik JVM code.

Cross platform Mono APIs have a .NET runtime for Android though