Android Studio

Score8.8 out of 10

92 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Android Studio are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Wide Device Support: Users have expressed their satisfaction with the wide variety of android devices supported by the platform for app development, encompassing mobile phones, tablets, TVs, and other devices. This extensive compatibility ensures that developers can target a diverse range of hardware configurations effectively.

Great User Interface: The excellent user interface of the platform has been consistently praised by reviewers as a standout feature that significantly enhances the overall user experience. Its intuitive design and smooth navigation contribute to a seamless development process.

Extensive Library Support: Customers highly value the comprehensive library support offered by the IDE, deeming it superior to other Integrated Development Environments available in the market. The robust library resources empower developers to efficiently access and integrate various functionalities into their projects.

Reviews

15 Reviews

The best IDE to develop android apps

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 16, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Android Studio is a well-known tool that is used to develop apps for android devices and is widely used to develop, test, debug, and deploy Android apps. It has an inbuilt emulator which supports many device models and configurations. It provides a beautiful development environment where we easily develop and deploy working Android apps.

Pros

We can develop apps for all types of android devices, whether it is mobile, tablet, TV, etc.
It has one of the great user interfaces.
It has more library support than other IDEs.
Well documented and large community.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Android Studio is well suited in the case of any type of android app development. It is also widely used for testing, debugging, and improving the app. It might not be suitable for you if your system has low configurations, like in less than 4 GB ram, it's nearly impossible to build apps.

Lokesh Singh

Jr. App Developer in Information Technology at FlipPaisa (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Stability in your apps? The best option is Android Studio

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 2, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our company is dedicated to the design and manufacture of electronic equipment connected to the cloud using WiFi or GPRS technology. Being interconnected devices we need to design APPs that can be run on all types of mobile phones and tablets. Although there are different market options to develop ANDROID applications in a simple way, the fact of using the native platform gives us the advantage of having total flexibility in addition to the fact that in the face of new versions of the operating system, ANDROID STUDIO will always be updated. With ANDROID STUDIO we have been able to provide our clients with robust and reliable APPs to manage our equipment remotely.

Pros

By using native code you have full access to functionalities.
It supports programming in JAVA and also in KOTLIN according to the preference of the software engineer.

Cons

Perhaps for a novice programmer, the amount of options visible in the interface could be intimidating.
Emulators are usually slow, perhaps their performance could be optimized.
Improve the integration wizard with GOOGLE FIREBASE services.

Likelihood to Recommend

When an APP must be made with access to very specific functions, the use of native code is the only option and that is where ANDROID STUDIO is unbeatable. On the other hand, when the APP is based on standard functionalities, there are other options that can meet the objective in less time and with less qualified personnel.

Jose Perri

Director of Engineering and Product Development in Research & Development at Alarmas Marshall (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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Final destination for android app development

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 12, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Android is an operating system that was designed for handheld devices by Google. I started developing in my college days. And now I am doing it at a professional app development company. We generally develop applications for Android and iOS. For Android apps, we are using the Android Studio platform which is also developed by Google itself. Android Studio allows users to develop all device-compatible apps. And it is always being upgraded by Google developers.

Pros

It's updating regularly and becoming better and better
The device compatibility of apps which are developed by this platform
Installation is so easy and the product is easy to use

Cons

Hot reload doesn't work sometimes
Emulators could be better
System requirements are higher than other tools

Likelihood to Recommend

First of all, Android Studio is so easy to configure and you can use it easily. You will get updates regularly. You can develop apps and can test apps on various devices. The support community is also too good. You can find many solutions on stack overflow and on other sites if you are stuck somewhere between developing. If your system has low capacity then it's less recommendable because Android Studio needs a good system to run well.

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Android Studio Perfect for Any Flutter Developer!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

July 29, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am the lead developer for a medical device company and we decided to write our app in Flutter. I have found that Android Studio is the best app for Flutter development. We use Android Studio exclusively as our IDE of choice and it fills all of our business needs.

Pros

Perfect for both Android and Flutter development
Has a great set of plugins for specific needs
Has a nice look and feel and a great layout

Cons

More improvement with the Android emulator functionality
More improvement with the database explorer functionality

Likelihood to Recommend

Android Studio is a great mobile development IDE. I have found it is the best for both Android and Flutter development. It is created by JetBrains, so any developer used to their products, such as IntelliJ IDEA, will find themselves right at home with this IDE. It is very intuitive so it is a good choice for people needing to learn an IDE quickly.

Verified User

Executive in Engineering (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Why I no longer write cross-platform mobile apps

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 29, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Android Studio as my primary development tool for the Android platform. Having previously used other cross-platform tools, such as Xamarin and Adobe Cordova, I have found that nothing beats native Android apps written using the official IDE for the platform. Google and Jetbrains have poured a lot of time, money, and effort into making this the fastest and easiest way to develop apps on Android.

Pros

Support for developing in either the emulator or a device means I can quickly diagnose platform specific issues
The support for Kotlin and Java is stellar, with projects easily containing both types of code with ease
Hot reload support means that I can quickly test changes without waiting for a length build and optimization process
Excellent cross platform support means I can develop on macOS, Windows, or Linux without losing functionality between platforms

Cons

Slow performance on older PCs means that you should develop only on the latest hardware
Project opening involves a long indexing and warm up process, meaning that a quick peek at an old project can result in a wait of a few minutes
Initial build times can be very long, although these have been slowly improving in recent versions of Android Studio

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.

Peter Chapman

Senior System Architect in Information Technology at Conglomo Limited (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

Best tool for Android app development

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 28, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

[Android Studio is] being used mostly by the engineering team, and that too specifically by the Android engineers coding in Kotlin / Java, along with the Product Management and Quality Analyst teams. Since it's an app development tool, it doesn't find any use case with the non technical departments and is only used by technology teams.

Pros

Quick to learn and easy to use
Debugging is super easy
Open source

Cons

Needs high performance system/laptop
Leads to crashes on most basic windows laptops as it takes a lot of RAM
Need to make system level changes to let flutter work with this

Likelihood to Recommend

[Android Studio is] best suited for beginners and even intermediate developers as it offers complete assistance and highlights errors and suggestion to improvise the code. It even predicts the code with a good level of accuracy to help the developer who are new. It's. It well suited for large scale teams as it needs high performing systems as well as it's not the optimum tool for collaboration coding. Though you could integrate with git and make it work, but other solutions might be better for large scale teams.

Verified User

Vice-President in Product Management (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Android Studio makes it easy for us to get to market quickly

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 26, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Android Studio to develop android apps for internal use and external publication. This is a very standard way to build the packages we are using, and it allows us to do all the things we want to do, such as code signing, apk verification, standard and debug builds, etc.

Pros

automated code signing
build
interface to gradle builds

Cons

usability with various packages is always a question mark
so much freedom to alter things that stuff goes non-standard in a hurry

Likelihood to Recommend

It's probably just the best, most standard, easiest to use build system for android that exists. It has a ton of features and doesn't really lack in any. Any stuff it is missing is gradually being added by the community authors, and community support is a really big thing for us.

Tom Kunz

Owner in Engineering at Solid Rock Technologies (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Best IDE for Android app development. But needs more improvements.

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

May 31, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have been using Android Studio for the past three years. It is used across the whole team in our company. Android Studio is the official IDE for Android application development. This contains many tools for building and testing your Android app very effectively. Studio is available in Windows, Linux and Mac OS and it is completely free to use.

Pros

Android Studio can be used to develop quality applications in Android devices such as Phone, Tablet, Wearable, TV and Android Auto.
Support for C/ C++ code using Android NDK.
Support for different testing tools and frameworks.

Cons

Android Studio is not light weighted. It cannot be used on low configuration machines.
Emulator is very slow.
Takes too long to build and run.

Likelihood to Recommend

Android Studio is one of the best IDEs for Android app development. It has a lot of useful features such as Emulator, Android NDK, Plugins, Code hints, Java to Kotlin conversion, etc. But there needs to be more improvements and optimization. Android Studio needs powerful machines to run smoothly. This is where Studio becomes less appropriate.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

The Best Android Application Developing IDE

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 30, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

From my University life, I started developing mobile applications. Most of the smartphone companies made thousands of Android mobile devices, including Android watches, TV boxes and many more. Android is fully customizable mobile operating system developing by Google. Android Studio is developed by Google and it allows users to develop Android applications compatible with any of the devices. Android Studio is always up to date.

Pros

Comes with Emulator facilities.
Updates with latest Android libraries and technologies.
Open source and fully free to use.

Cons

Getting more processing power to run for both developing IDE and Emulator.
The updating process is very slow.

Likelihood to Recommend

Android Studio provides 100% of pure Android application development facilities to the developer.

Mary Paula

Software Engineer in Information Technology at Actronicx (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

Android Studio: Android Application Development Suite.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 23, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Android Studio has been used by us to develop a modern UI for android applications. It makes development very easy and robust. Virtual Emulator within the Android Studio makes it easier to debug the application along with the development. We have been using Android Studio for 1-2 years in order to develop Android applications projects.

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.

Cons

Emulator starts very slow in Android Studio, maybe that is the area where it needs improvement.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would like to recommend that bot professional and even novice android application developers use Android Studio as a development IDE. It is free to use and easily available over the Internet. Moreover, It comes with a pre-installed Android Emulator to test applications. It is very easy to use and facilitates the feature of drag and drop android components as well. An XML parser is very good in this IDE.

Kunal Verma

Software Engineer Intern in Research & Development at UBC (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Why I no longer write cross-platform mobile apps

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 29, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Support for developing in either the emulator or a device means I can quickly diagnose platform specific issues
The support for Kotlin and Java is stellar, with projects easily containing both types of code with ease
Hot reload support means that I can quickly test changes without waiting for a length build and optimization process
Excellent cross platform support means I can develop on macOS, Windows, or Linux without losing functionality between platforms

Cons

Slow performance on older PCs means that you should develop only on the latest hardware
Project opening involves a long indexing and warm up process, meaning that a quick peek at an old project can result in a wait of a few minutes
Initial build times can be very long, although these have been slowly improving in recent versions of Android Studio

Likelihood to Recommend

Peter Chapman

Senior System Architect in Information Technology at Conglomo Limited (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience