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James K Williams

03/13/2020, 10:56 AM
Hey everyone! I've heard that some of Android developers use IDEA instead of Android Studio. Is there any reason to do so?
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wasyl

03/13/2020, 11:39 AM
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
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ahulyk

03/13/2020, 12:15 PM
Idea with android plugin - is the same actually
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zhuinden

03/13/2020, 2:50 PM
if you want to make your life a bit more complicated then it's a good plan
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Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]

03/13/2020, 6:14 PM
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)
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trevjones

03/13/2020, 9:14 PM
or if you have a bunch of selenium ruby tests idea is your best bet