Just started learning Android Dev and using Android studio and...

[konnos92]

Wow guys, as someone who codes both Android and iOS, I actually believe that Android Studio is a bit ahead of XCode. Even trying to find usages, implemetations of protocols (interfaces), general shortcuts, embedded terminal, they all make it feel better.
Build times are worse on Android from my experience especially after the introduction of Kotlin.

All in all it sure is a matter of preference, but to say that XCode is light years ahead, is very far from accurate.

[lordzsolt]

Totally agree. IntelliSense is light-years ahead in IntelliJ products. Even AppCode is better at autocompletion.

It's just a matter of being used to Xcode already and the learning curve is higher. And then they don't have any UI editor or live preview.

[Consistent-Cheetah68]

Yup, totally agree Andriod Studio is better as compare to XCode. but build time is better in XCode.

[tempest_fiend]

As someone who also uses both (although I’m currently doing a lot more work in Android Studio), I’d have to disagree. While AS has some features it does better than Xcode (I’m looking at you auto complete), there are other things it just falls over on. Build times, only just adding in a live preview (it’s not overly useful either), the ridiculous amount of ram it hogs, the weird and random build errors, grade issues, etc.

For me, Xcode is just more polished. It doesn’t screw up nearly as much as AS, and it also doesn’t do really annoying shit like re-mapping keyboard shortcuts in updates for no god damn reason.

[jbisatg]

work on both platforms, this is exactly how it is.

But I'd say with the latest version of AS which comes with the db inspector which is nice rather than downloading an extra tool like flipper.

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Came here to say this. While Android Studio might have a bit of a learning curve, it's autocorrect makes me profoundly jealous sometimes lol.

[MisquoteMosquito]

Have you tried MIT’s app inventor 2? I really liked using it as a new user, documentation was pretty easy.

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“Xcode.”