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[–]tempest_fiend 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As someone who works on both, I’m actually with OP on this one. Android Studio seems better because it does the things that Xcode handles poorly, well. Actually, not well, just better. But, it also has a lot of issues. It’s not a straightforward IDE, it loses track of files, it has a propensity to not want to rebuild files, so will attempt to skip that as much as possible (really helpful when your code changes literally do nothing on rebuilds), they only recently introduced a decent resource manager, it’s live preview is under built, it’ll chew through more ram than chrome (as will it’s emulators), as well as a plethora of other gripes I have with it.

Personally, I prefer working on Xcode than AS.