Android Studio vs. WebStorm

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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WebStorm is a great product for programming and development. It has all the capabilities needed for education, as well as for professional deployment. I use it in the classroom with my students, who benefit from the comprehensive drop down menus and the integrated spell check. It also has a clean user interface that allows for customization.

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• 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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• This is the only editor in my opinion which gives you the full development experience if you want to code in JavaScript.
• WebStorm supports many different linters including "standards". This has been such a blessing for our team. All our PRs look perfect now.
• WebStorm is very good in design. I love coding in it.
• It has terminal built right into it. I know many other editors also provide this, but I really like how seamlessly the terminal works out of the box.
• Most of the plugins you will ever need is already installed right off the box. I haven't installed anything new so far.
• The rename/reformat functions are very intelligent. I feel very confident renaming something new.
• There is a "validation" inspector which reports anything as small as spellings. This helps us keep our codebase very-very clean.

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• 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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• Didn't find any apparent issue overall, except sometimes the WebStorm is running too many default validation check in the backend and response is slow, typically when we keep WebStorm running for some time, and if we restart the WebStorm it will take long time to be "warm up", perhaps, some JetBean team can consider some performance improvement

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It's an irreplaceable part of my toolkit and isn't that expensive per year.

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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.

Great in debugging, testing, developing and maintaining softwares in a number of languages. Great support for many languages and their syntaxes. Great support of many third party extensions and plugins like GIT and html plugins. The RAM usage of WebStorm however could be really improved, it literally takes almost all of the RAM of my machine with 16GB RAM

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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.

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I gave this rating because I have never needed their customer support, which is the highest level of support I suppose. When a product works just fine out of the box and everything you may need is well documented, it's a paradise for the customer. But I've seen some questions asked on their portal, and I've seen thorough answers given to the questions and the willingness to support the customer with follow-ups and everything else.

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Highly recommend the JetBrains Toolbox, it remembers your recent projects and launches from the task bar.

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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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VS Code is free and more popular. Popularity helps in that you can do pair programming more easily because you all use the same [tool]. It's also easier when trying to guide someone (especially a junior developer). However, Webstorm comes with more out-of-the-box and is generally faster and more effective. Webstorm has been around for many more years as well.

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• 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.

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• Our UX guys love the Emmet support provided by WebStorm and enjoy cranking out prototypes quicker than they could before.
• I love the standardization provided by the tslint support. When all the devs code to the same standard, it makes our code more maintainable.
• The test support makes it easier to write and execute tests, lowering the barrier to entry of creating test suite around our code. Testing makes maintenance of any codebase far more effective and efficient.

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