i thought android studio is more advanced, has mor...

# announcements

[Merileoke]

i thought android studio is more advanced, has more flexibility/tools

[Subhrajyoti Sen]

The question is whether they need all those tools for non-Android projects

[Merileoke]

Well I just want to deal with android game development. Does it mean I should just use intellij?

[Subhrajyoti Sen]

Not really. You should be able to follow along on Android Studio for the most part

[Merileoke]

I have not coded before so I personally got no attachment to android studio.

[Jurriaan Mous]

You can load the Android studio tools into IntelliJ. Intellij has support for more languages. And IntelliJ has some extra commercial tools if you use the Ultimate version. Furthermore you can use the Kotlin native debugger. (Although I heard it was coming in a future Android studio version)

[Merileoke]

Alright, thanks, I'll go with Android Studio.

[Mike]

Just in case. Android studio is a specialized version of Intellij. There are other specializations like webstorm and pycharm.

Generally the specialized versions EAP version WI get features first and they eventually end up in Intellij. As others saif# Intellij is the IDE to do it all and has multi language support etc.

If you're only doing Android, then android studioay be a bit easier as it's more focused in UI and plugins installed.