was intellij used for android development (officia...

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[Dalinar]

was intellij used for android development (officially) before Kotlin was sanctioned? if so, was it more pleasant than using eclipse for android?

[hho]

Yes, Android Studio has been based on IntelliJ since long before Kotlin.

[gildor]

I used IDEA instead of Eclipse and ADT for about 1 year for Android development before Android Studio was announced. And smart code completion, inspections, speed everything was much better on IDEA, but JB have to support integration with Android themselves, sometimes it take some time to implement some new feature of Android build system, but it was based on Ant back then, not Gradle