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Android Studio vs. Espresso

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Android Studio
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Android Studio is an official Android development integrated development environment (IDE) for mobile application development in the Android operating system developed by Google. Android Studio is based on Jetbrains'N/A
Espresso
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Espresso is a test framework used to write Android UI tests, and part of the Android SDK. The Espresso API encourages test authors to think in terms of what a user might do while interacting with the application - locating UI elements and interacting with them. At the same time, the framework prevents direct access to activities and views of the application because holding on to these objects and operating on them off the UI thread is a major source of test flakiness.N/A
Pricing
Android StudioEspresso
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Android StudioEspresso
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Android StudioEspresso
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Android Studio
Jose Perri | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jose Perri
Director of Engineering and Product Development
Chose Android Studio
Although there are alternatives on the market that propose creating ANDROID and IOS APPs in a single interface at the same time, in our case the experience was not positive since we had to access very specific functionalities. There was no other solution than to develop the …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Android Studio
I initially did code in Eclipse to develop an android app that is generally used for web apps and then I moved into Android Studio. That's the biggest thing I ever did I think. Android Studio has lots more functionalities and plugins than any other product. Now I am completely …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Android Studio
I am primarily a Java developer so many of the IDEs I have used are specifically made for Java development. I have used IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, and Netbeans for Java development but Android Studio is far better for Android development specifically and it also has support for …
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Peter Chapman
Senior System Architect
Chose Android Studio
Android Studio is as good for Android development, as Visual Studio has been for Windows development. It is my first choice for Android development because it includes an excellent suite of tools and support for Android. Its built in refactoring and code fixes are much more …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Android Studio
Android Studio is the best possible offering to make android based apps. It's a product by Google and the official integrated development environment for android app development. That's why it is able to offer the easiest to learn and simplest coding environment to developers. …
Chose Android Studio
We personally did not try too many others because the staff who we hired to take on mobile development were already familiar with it and were able to get going quickly with it. They and all their peers had already worked through others and we were content to trust their …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Android Studio
We use Android Studio for Android app development because it is the most efficient and official Integrated development environment for Android.
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Kunal Verma
Software Engineer Intern
Chose Android Studio
Android application development can also be done using the IntelliJ IDE. It is a very good IDE but it is paid for professional and commercial product development. However, IntelliJ IDE is available with a student license for limited application development features. Thus …
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Tharanga Wickramsinghe
Software Engineer
Chose Android Studio
  • Debugging and testing are easy in Android Studio.
  • The errors of the codes can be found easily in Android Studio.
  • It has superior community support.
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Barry Burd
Professor
Chose Android Studio
Eclipse used to be the official IDE for Android. Since Android Studio is now the official IDE, and since Eclipse is no longer supported for Android, I have no choice but to use Android Studio. Of course, Android Studio has more features than Eclipse had because (1) Android is …
Chiyars Malhotra | TrustRadius Reviewer
Chiyars Malhotra
Android Developer
Chose Android Studio
Basically Eclipse is a tool where you have to do all on your own from start to end.

Android Studio is using its Artificial Intelligence techniques to enhance our coding experience and offer better , suggestions to create methods, variables, classes, etc.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Android Studio
Microsoft VSC is a great product that can be adapted for Android development, but it requires significantly more effort than using Android Studio.
Espresso
Nikhil Puniyani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nikhil Puniyani
Senior Software Engineer In Test
Chose Espresso
As our app is complete on Android Espresso is the best choice over Appium Fewer efforts in Espresso over Appium, as Espresso provides some built-in library to perform the operation. Easy to use, Espresso is very easy to understand and we can perform operations with very …
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User Ratings
Android StudioEspresso
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
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8.0
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Support Rating
9.8
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User Testimonials
Android StudioEspresso
Likelihood to Recommend
Android Studio is the only platform you should consider for Android development. I have found that nothing else comes close in terms of documentation or support. There is always the temptation to develop for Android using a cross platform toolkit, such as Xamarin, but unless your app is incredibly simple, you will find your self wrestling with the toolkit more than actually creating your product. If you have any Android projects still in Eclipse, you should upgrade these to Android Studio - the backwards compatibility for older versions of Android is very good, with issues only occurring with debugging on older (Lollipop or below) devices. The only scenario Android Studio is not suitable for is cross-platform development. There is no way to share code between iOS, macOS, or Windows projects with Android Studio, unless you are developing a game in C++. If you wish to develop cross platform mobile apps, I suggest Microsoft Visual Studio.
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Peter Chapman
Senior System Architect
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  • It is very easy to verify Images with drawable resources
  • Color Verification we can do this by referring to the same hex code as the developer team used so that it is reused.
  • Opening a desired activity without performing End-to-end flow which eventually saves time.
  • If the application is built on Android we can go testing activity with Espresso as it provides all the necessary APIs
  • Espresso is not appropriate to iOS app automation, from a business point of view we need to hire new resources for iOS testing.
Nikhil Puniyani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nikhil Puniyani
Senior Software Engineer In Test
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Pros
  • It is very lightweight and resource management is done pretty well in this IDE.
  • It boots up very fast as compared to other development IDEs.
  • It is not a memory hungry IDE.
  • Even novices can work with this IDE very easily.
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Kunal Verma
Software Engineer Intern
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  • Automatic Waiting logic before failing any test
  • Black box and Grey box testing
  • Easy to Understand and Very Flexible
  • Supported Java And Kotlin
  • Fewer Efforts compare to other Mobile Automation Frameworks
  • Execution is very Fast
Nikhil Puniyani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nikhil Puniyani
Senior Software Engineer In Test
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Cons
  • Debugging is not that great, it can show some specific details for a better understanding of the issue.
  • It is a RAM eater tool, its hard to do multitask along with the android studio.
  • Sometimes after updating the android studio, we have to face so many random issues with the SDK or codes.
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Lokesh Singh
Jr. App Developer
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  • As Espresso works on the ideal thread if the threads are not handled properly by the developing team it can lead to challenges in the execution of your tests.
  • Depends more on the developer's code
  • we cannot develop tests as individual frameworks, we share the repository with developers.
  • We need to be cautious while making changes in the tests, as we share same repository
Nikhil Puniyani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nikhil Puniyani
Senior Software Engineer In Test
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Usability
It has improved over the versions, and it continues to do so. I have no problems using Android Studio and I think that it's quite a user-friendly software.
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Anonymous
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Support Rating
The support of the community is very good. You can find many solutions on sites like StackOverflow and Brazilian sites like GUJ, for example. Google documentation about Android Studio is very good too. I have some Android developer friends, so they have the knowledge to support me when I need it.
Marcelo Araujo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Marcelo Araujo
Desenvolvedor de software
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Alternatives Considered
I am primarily a Java developer so many of the IDEs I have used are specifically made for Java development. I have used IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, and NetBeans for Java development but Android Studio is far better for Android development specifically and it also has support for things like Flutter development. VS Code is quickly becoming popular across languages but Android Studio is still at the top in my opinion.
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Anonymous
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As our app is complete on Android Espresso is the best choice over Appium Fewer efforts in Espresso over Appium, as Espresso provides some built-in library to perform the operation. Easy to use, Espresso is very easy to understand and we can perform operations with very little code. Developers can contribute, as they have good command over Java and Kotin languages and also use Espresso for unit testing.
Nikhil Puniyani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nikhil Puniyani
Senior Software Engineer In Test
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Return on Investment
  • Due to Android Studio's day by day improvement, our company is making Android applications in more and more effective and efficient ways.
  • 24x7 support from Google and JetBrains is making our work running 24x7 smoother, and making our clients happier and happier day by day.
  • Due to the awesome animation and transition tricks, we are providing our clients more than they expected.
Chiyars Malhotra | TrustRadius Reviewer
Chiyars Malhotra
Android Developer
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  • As it is an Open Source tool it cost-effective
  • East to use, so that you can train many new Joiners to start delivering the tasks
  • Maintainance is very low, as we depend on the developer's layout files we can reuse their elements
  • We can cover most of the scenarios which helps in the coverage of the tests
Nikhil Puniyani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nikhil Puniyani
Senior Software Engineer In Test
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