Hey everyone! I've heard that some of Android developers use IDEA instead of Android Studio. Is there any reason to do so?

Not really — Idea lags behind AS in terms of features a bit, and while AS lags behind with Idea builds, it’s usually not something you would actually need

Idea with android plugin - is the same actually

if you want to make your life a bit more complicated then it's a good plan

Some devs at my company use IDEA because they want to avoid Gradle sync, and you can’t turn that off in Android Studio. (we manually run a gradle task to generate the IDEA project files)

or if you have a bunch of selenium ruby tests idea is your best bet