# Android Studio Reviews **Vendor:** Google **Category:** [Mobile Development Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/mobile-development-platforms) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 645 ## About Android Studio Android Studio is Google's official integrated development environment (IDE) for Android application development, built upon JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools tailored for building, testing, and debugging Android apps across various devices. Since its initial release in 2013, Android Studio has become the primary platform for developers aiming to create high-quality Android applications. Key Features and Functionality: - Gradle-Based Build System: Facilitates flexible and efficient project builds, allowing for customized configurations and dependency management. - Rich Layout Editor: Enables intuitive drag-and-drop design of user interfaces, with real-time previews across multiple screen configurations. - Lint Tools: Provides static code analysis to identify performance, usability, and version compatibility issues, ensuring code quality. - ProGuard Integration: Offers code shrinking and obfuscation to optimize app performance and enhance security. - Built-in Support for Google Cloud Platform: Simplifies integration with services like Firebase Cloud Messaging and Google App Engine, enhancing app functionality. - Android Virtual Device (Emulator): Allows testing and debugging of applications on various Android device configurations without physical hardware. Primary Value and User Solutions: Android Studio streamlines the Android app development process by providing a unified environment equipped with essential tools and features. It addresses common development challenges such as code quality assurance, efficient debugging, and seamless integration with cloud services. By offering a robust and user-friendly platform, Android Studio empowers developers to create high-performance, reliable, and user-centric Android applications. ## Android Studio Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find Android Studio's **ease of use** remarkable, making navigation and development seamless with intuitive features. (22 reviews) - Users appreciate the **robust functionality** of Android Studio, making app development efficient and user-friendly. (16 reviews) - Users value the **intuitive IDE quality** of Android Studio, enabling seamless navigation and efficient project management. (16 reviews) - Users value the **easy navigation and integrated Git** features of Android Studio, enhancing their coding experience significantly. (14 reviews) - Users value the **efficient debugging** tools in Android Studio, enhancing the overall development experience for Android apps. (14 reviews) - Users enjoy the **sophisticated tools and integration** in Android Studio, enhancing their app development experience significantly. (13 reviews) - Code Management (8 reviews) - Integration Capabilities (7 reviews) - Users appreciate the **user-friendly interface** of Android Studio, making development accessible for beginners and efficient for pros. (7 reviews) - Users find **easy integration** with Android SDK and plugins enhances their app development and optimization experience. (6 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users experience **slow performance** with frequent restarts, long build times, and high resource demands on their systems. (23 reviews) - Users experience **high specifications** demands, resulting in slow performance and crashes on less powerful machines. (16 reviews) - Users report significant **performance issues** with Android Studio, noting long build times and occasional crashes. (13 reviews) - Users report **high memory usage** , leading to slow performance and lag, especially on larger projects and older devices. (12 reviews) - Users experience **high resource consumption** , causing slow performance and frustration on older computers during complex tasks. (9 reviews) - Users experience a **slow startup** with Android Studio, impacting performance and overall development efficiency significantly. (8 reviews) - Users often experience **update issues** that cause slow performance, plugin conflicts, and frustrating errors in Android Studio. (7 reviews) - High Storage Usage (5 reviews) - Debugging Issues (4 reviews) - Software Bugs (4 reviews) ## Android Studio Reviews ### 1. Best IDE for Android App Development **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amar G. | Developer II - Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** Android Studio IDE has useful features for Android app development like emulator and built in templates. It allows java and kotlin. It gives a useful tools to developers for developing apk. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** Emulator eats lot of RAM which makes the application very heavy. And It takes lot of time when we build large application. And I have seen performance issues when working on big apps **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** No requirement if hardware. Supports populare languages like Java and Kotlin. Istant building of apps. Supports all kind of apps development for android gadgets like Android TV, Android watch and so on. ### 2. Best IDE for Android Development **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2022 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** Android Studio is used in my organization as the principal IDE for developing Android apps. The UI Designer enables us to create consistent UI by drag/drop actions. It has a great set of plugins and the look and feel that it provides is commendable. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** I have been facing some issues with Emulator. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** When it comes to the development of Android apps no one provides better results than Android Studio. It directly impacts the way of creating an app and makes it much easier with the help of its tools and plugins. It supports Kotlin, along with Java, and can also be used to build flutter apps. ### 3. Insights on Android Studio **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** With this new technological trend, we have all seen a significant increase in android applications over the last few years. More people are switching from web apps to mobile apps than ever before. With the rise of mobile applications, Android Studio is one of the best IDEs to get started developing mobile apps, especially for beginners. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** It takes a lot of time in gradle building & is one of the heaviest software to use. One should have really good PC specs to use this seamlessly. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Android studio is the best IDE to develop mobile applications because it provides the main user interface when coding your app. It indicates about some errors in coding and also allows developers to identify things to test and run your app conveniently. ### 4. Android studio for app devs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ajith K. | Associate Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** I like Android studio Because it has all build in resources need for app development and also it as build emulator which mimikes the original Android phone so the development and testing made easy. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** The most thing that I don't like about Android is that it takes too much of cpu memory it is not an lite ide and it also not open source so the modification you can made is less **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I had lot of benefits using Android studio like my development and deployment time is reduced, testing is made easy using build in emulator,work load is reduced. ### 5. BEST TOOL FOR APPLICATION DEGIEN **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** RAUNAK A. | Microsoft virtual internship, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** 1.lots of things predefined like-bitton, textedit, advertise, image. 2.giving lots of functionality like connecting firebase and if any error so giving best solution and automatically fixed. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** No more but one thing is that in Firefox version of android studio not able to play emulator as faster compare than the prevois version means emulator is not runs smoothly. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** With the help of android studio, I had made a 3 app and learn lots of UI degien experience as well as to get opportunity to interact with database (firebase) with android studio. ### 6. One stop solution for Android developers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Faiz P. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** Android studio almost provide all the necessary features to develop and test the android applications. Also there is plenty of plugins available to ease your development. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** To install the android studio, you minimum Required 8 GB ram. In low specification systems, it's quite hard to run. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Developing the native and flutter applications. ### 7. Android Application Development with Android Studio **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joash B. | Customer Service Agent, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** It's easy to use and free, open-source software with good features to develop android applications using Java programming language or Kotlin. It has a good dark theme interface that I really love. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** Android studio is a very heavy software hence consumes a lot of computers memory. Gradle building and parsing are too slow on low-configuration machines. It takes time to launch a new application since it must download the Gradle. **Recommendations to others considering Android Studio:** I highly recommend the android studio to all mobile application developers. It’s the best free and open-source software you can use for mobile applications. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our bolt android application is created using his platform. We used the android studio to code the app with java, and we are now coding it with Kotlin using android studio. ### 8. Android studio review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** It is best Android development tool.add module section. Logcat section allows me to view logs. Debugging is very useful and emulator. Google library is very easy to add. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** Emulator performans is slower maybe.Definitely the git section should be redesigned to be more understandable.Gradle build speed must be increased.View options should be improved. **Recommendations to others considering Android Studio:** the best ide for android development **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were using Eclipse before and it was very difficult. Android studio solved our problem.ofcourse most important is mobile application development problem for android. ### 9. Create an app in minutes with Android Studio **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** Clean interface and very good ide to work with also the ui xml is great. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** Nothing much to mention about but the XML viewer can be enhanced a bit. **Recommendations to others considering Android Studio:** Great ide and application builder for anyone who wants to explore their development skills. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been using it for multiple application development on own interest and it serves the best. ### 10. Best IDE for Android Native development **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nitesh S. | Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2020 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** I really like Android Studio a lot. From the day it was launched, I have been using it to create Android applications. The layout is simply drag and drop to create the user interface, and also every important thing required for creating Android apps is present in it. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** The gradle takes too much time to build. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is stylish and properly structured, and whenever we update, they keep almost everything in place, along with new features added. ### 11. My Favorite IDE for android development **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** it contains all the tools you need to develop an amazing android app **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** this program works very slowly because it needs a very big RAM capacity **Recommendations to others considering Android Studio:** I think that Android Studio is the best IDE for the development of mobile **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I develop many simple android apps like quiz application and map application ### 12. Android Studio Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akil K. | Senior Data Analyst, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2022 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** There is no better option to develop the android applications. Andriod studio is a full-feature pack IDE to develop, manage and deploy the native as well as cross-platform applications. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** Except for high configuration, I didn't find any cause till now. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Developing android applications ### 13. Android Studio **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Murat . | Android Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** My favorite feature is that it allows the compiler to develop it in a way that helps the programmer. Its interface is quite helpful, and it's an intelligent compiler 1- Helpful: After working with Android Studio for a while, I thought it was the most comfortable compiler to use. 2- Layout: While working on XML files, you can constantly quickly improve the layout and see them in design or code mode. 3- Flexible: It has excellent extensions and allows you to compile different programming languages. 4 -UI & UX: Best in design and user experience. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** I think they still have unresolved bugs and their emulators are still inadequate. 1- Git: It is insufficient in using Git, and it has bugs. 2- Slow: Compilation time can be very long in large projects. 3- Caches: Having to clean & rebuild and, Invalidate and cache restart frequently. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using it to develop android application which is my business with android studio. Although there are alternatives in this regard, Android studio is the best. ### 14. Ideal for Developing Mobile Applications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sibongakonke N. | P, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** Android Studio is a one-stop shop for android development; It comes fully stocked with modules that facilitate developing, testing, and deploying an android application. It is a mature IDE and has a large community. I like the fact that it is ready to go as soon as you download and install it; there is a trim configuration required **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** As an IDE, Android Studio is too focused on the Android Platform; it doesn't work well as a general-purpose IDE. **Recommendations to others considering Android Studio:** Android Studio is perfect for building mobile applications for the Android Platform. It has a large community that will help when you get stuck **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mobile Application Development and Deployment ### 15. The best IDE for professional mobile development **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hiren S. | Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** Android studio is a feature-rich IDE for android development. My favorite features are a built-in layout editor, emulators, Intelli-sense, and support for all platforms(Windows, Linux, macOS). The recent versions of the studio build and run the app in an emulator in no time. The custom emulator configure helps in systems with low RAM. Built-in app generator makes sharing easy. Mocking physical sensors in the device makes testing smoother. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** The studio itself could eat up a lot of RAM that makes the emulator glitchy/slow. There should be an option to version management of an app like the Apple test flight. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been using android studio for two years to develop android apps on many freelancing projects, and it's been fantastic. ### 16. Good software tools for Android app development **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Krishna M. | Android and Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** This is most popular software for Android app develop. Here many tools are present. You can create different types of application in this software. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** The gradle time very slow. And heavy memory uses. **Recommendations to others considering Android Studio:** When you develop Android app , please use Android Studio.this is so lightly and user helpful software. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** When run an app without usb then wifi run not working some time ### 17. Android Studio and its dark theme **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mangeli C. | Team Leader, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** The ability to program both Java and Kotlin mobile applications is a plus for me. It has inbuilt emulators that allow me to test my program even without an android phone. It has a good dark theme. Android studio code indentation makes code debugging very easy. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** It's very software to run and consumes very high computer memory. It requires internet connectivity for you to build Gradle, which makes it more expensive to use besides it being is free and open source. **Recommendations to others considering Android Studio:** I think of Android studio as the best Mobile application development software. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it for mobile application development. We support our client's application and make changes using this excellent application. ### 18. Android Studio - The best place for creation of all your Apps **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** I used the Android Studio a lot during my Time in Wipro, where I built Apps related to Google Glass and Google Cardboard, including face and object recognition. I liked the versatility of the Android Studio and how the Apps could be created with a lot of ease, and all the ready packages we had in the same. It was great to have all of them there, which helped in a plug-and-play model of quickly building the apps, making it a great tool to work on! **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** Nothing particular - the bugs in Android Studio were solved promptly with updates - I wouldn't say I liked the amount of memory Android studio took from the laptop, though -making the computer slower = I think that is something that can be optimised **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were building Apps related to Google Glass and Google Cardboard using Android Studio and testing them before moving them to the hardware. Benefits - Quick usage of packages; versatile software and robust SDK output ### 19. A studio unlike any other **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2022 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** It provides a detailed look into the project. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** Could have a simpler interface for debugging. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Can be used to create an android application and has been helping me with it. ### 20. Android Studio Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mukesh D. | Technical Test Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** Android Studio supports both Kotlin and Java. Its integration with GitHub is seamless, and it provides me an option to develop/test code and analyze the code quickly. Android Studio is a multi-platform application - it works with Windows, Mac, Linux. It is an open-source, freely accessible software which makes this the perfect platform to develop quick and responsive applications. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** The User Interface is a bit tricky to understand. I had a problem learning the nuances of the application in the beginning. Android Studio is a heavy application - the system hangs a lot of times during the launch of the application. The compilation and the debugging process are also very cumbersome. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Android Studio helps me develop and test quick and responsive applications. We also integrate it with GitHub for better solutions. Asset management is also easy. ### 21. Best software for developing android and IOS application for mobile. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shiv S. | Radio Frequency Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** The debugging feature in the software is very easy and handy to use. Also the IDE that android studio use (IntelliJ) makes the coding part easy and very much helpful in building the application. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** The artic version of the software has limit the usages to many features of the software which hinder the development of the mobile applications. The wireless debugging sometimes not working properly. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** In the debugging of the application android studio helps very much for debugging the app. Also in making the apps for the company and individuals using java and kotline . ### 22. An android app developing software having all the features required for a application **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chetan T. | J, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** The IDE that android studio use is very easy to understand and reducing the line of codes. The debugging process in that is much helpful for the developers to debugging the code. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** The artic version in that limit the uses of the software to do doing the developments in many aspects so don't upgrade it on artic verison as a beginner in the development process. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Any mobile application we can made thorough it and it is the official software for developing the android and IOS apps. We can easily release it on the playstore. ### 23. Using Android Studio **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Turan Emre K. | Data System Senior Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** As a beginner Android programmer, I can say that the interface and coding screens are useful. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** In button methods, you cannot switch to the code screen by double-clicking as in traditional programming languages. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I write fun and useful applications with Android Studio. It is very useful for my small needs. ### 24. A good way to develop applications **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Omar David C. | Desarrollador de software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** It has many tools to be used in the development process of a native or hybrid application **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** At first it is somewhat complicated to understand and start using **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** The development of various hybrid applications and their respective testing process ### 25. Nothing better than this **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 31, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** With Android Studio, developers can ensure maintaining the best coding standards with tons of out of the box plugins. Android Studio also comes with an emulator which completely eliminates use of real device and also it has also lot of testing tools available **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** It's bit laggy with using multiple instances of Android Studio.When using for the first time compilation of app it will take indefinite amount of time which will make the developers impatient. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Real time app development.Unit test cases execution,UI design,peer review.It has good support with Git, which can be used with its own terminal.Also it supports hybrid app development using plugin which completely eliminates the use of another IDE ### 26. Good but slow **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** deniz y. | Business Intelligence Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** It's an idea that works well if your system is good. material theme is good. It allows you to see the visual changes you have made to your application in real time. It comes with Google Cloud Messaging. Thus, you can transfer data from your server via the cloud system. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** It forces ram. Computer slows down and freezes. android emulator is quite slow. There was a coordinator layout issue but it has been resolved. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have made simple applications for customers who want to follow up-to-date dashboards. ### 27. Best for App Development **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harsh G. | Tech Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** Android Studio is one of the best App development tool which helps supports every type of Device , version. Powerful IDE and plugins made development process much smooth and Easy. Lots of features and best Code Debugger **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** A little bit tricky to Understand in the beginning, but once you know how to use it, things become more manageable. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using Andriod Studio for Developing Gaming Apps . Benefits:- Easy to Manage and Edit Game Assets Code Debugger Device Simulator Supports All types of Devices and Version ### 28. Best IDE for Android **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luis V. | Chief Technology Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** It helps you a lot with it intellisense and it's very easy to use **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** There are some beta versions that crash the first time you use it **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's faster to develop in Android because it makes the configuration faster ### 29. Good editor for developing Android application, but has a lot of flaws. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** I like the easy ability to develop Android applications. There is a built-in Android emulator, allowing the user to choose any device to emulate. It also provides a way to design the UI (XML), as well as the backend logic for the UI components. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** The UI designer provides some problems because it is slow, and the responsiveness could be better. The accuracy of moving parts of the UI could also be better. The overall application is also cumbersome and eats up a lot of the user's machine's performance. This makes it unusable on lower-end machines. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can develop Android applications in Java, both the frontend and backend. I am also able to test the application on an emulated device dynamically. This application provides many-in-one features, which is helpful for a developer juggling many aspects of an application. ### 30. Good **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Farming | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** How agile the IDE is. Adding themes that look the best, adding plugins such as plugins for flutter, and the number of emulator devices you can add are beneficial. It comes up with all the things required for developing an App. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** The amount of space it eats up in my hard disk is what I don't like about it. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me in creating applications. I have built many applications with Android Studio, starting from college projects to the enterprise-level application used by many people in real life. It is effortless to build an app with it, and the most notable reason behind that would be the community, which is very big and helpful. ### 31. Android Studio **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saddam J. | Android Intern, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** Android Studio is significant at the autosuggestion and Java to Kotlin conversion. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** It eats up the ram and slows down the computer any time, so you need a heavy-duty machine to perform day to day operation **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am an android app developer, so my whole day used to spend on the computer using android studio ### 32. Essential Android app development software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** In fact, Android Studio is essential for anyone who needs to develop mobile apps for Android, especially in languages like Kotlin and Java. There are many features that optimize the programmer's performance and almost everything can be done within this software. Severe problems are analyzed automatically and there is an emulator built into the software. Android Studio is accurate in identifying errors in the code and promptly informs ways to fix the issues found. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** Perhaps the main negative point of Android Studio is its performance, which is terrible. Unfortunately, the default emulator has the same problem. I understand that software with so many facilities tends to be more resource-intensive than a simple code editor, but this is a common complaint across the developer community. Yes, performance has improved a lot in recent versions, but this is still a problem. **Recommendations to others considering Android Studio:** Virtually all developers who have participated in projects for Android devices have used Android Studio. If you use other software, such as Visual Studio, I recommend that you try Android Studio, it is undoubtedly one of the most complete software for mobile developers. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Android Studio is practically mandatory for anyone who needs to develop an app for Android. It has an extensive amount of features that allow the app to be designed and tested efficiently, maintaining compatibility with the different versions of Android and bringing together all the components needed in just one software. ### 33. Should be the best friend of anyone working on a project coded with Kotlin **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ali Y. | Startup Studio Project Coordinator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** There is a great fit between the emulator and the code. That's why it's the IDE I've been most satisfied with when programming Kotlin. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** I am so afraid that android studio will burn my macbook. my mac is getting really hot while running. I dont like it. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I compile the applications that I developed with Kotlin and Java through android studio. It is very practical to examine the codes and projects with the android studio emulator. ### 34. Easiest way to make application work **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bhavesh j. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** The best part i like about it is it gives a clue about our work with its best debugging tools which resolve error at the time whenever we do any mistake. Best part is it is open source we dont have to spend a single penny to download studio help for new developers who are at learning stage and the advanced developer like me who are in app creation. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** It we want to download Android studio then we need good performance computers with advance configuration otherwise it will crash your system working and its speed too, except this i love android studio the most to make application **Recommendations to others considering Android Studio:** Best IDE to satisfy your requirement. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Support mavin which i like the most about it, makes my work easy without any extra downloading of addon tools. We get plenty of tutorials on it so it helps me a lot get deeper knowledge in android studio ### 35. Incredible platform for android application development. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jay T. | Intern, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** Android studio is open source software for developers to make their own android application. It is trusted because of developed by Google. It provides emulator to run the code. Also you can test application by actual device connect with data cable. We can make application for many device which include mobile, watch, TV. Using separate xml file you can easily design screen of device. I like the debugger of android studio, it shows error complete message by this you can solve error. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** It takes a lots of time to open the android studio. Sometimes it will take time consuming to run the code. Some errors are not define properly, have to search on other site for know which error occurs. By opening virtual device (emulator) my computer is hang for some times, it is quite irritating. **Recommendations to others considering Android Studio:** If you want to make professional application, its absolute IDE. You can add dependency for use of other library. There are two language option in android studio you can make application using Java or Kotlin. There many option in android studio, you can analyze your application, reduce size. If you don't have device to run, you can use virtual device which is perfectly run as actual device. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** First of all, I learn android studio. Then I understand how to make android application. I have successfully create one application and published in PlayStore. It is very easy to make database connection with android application using inbuilt dependency. ### 36. Android Native Apps Development Kit **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** Open-source platform. Rich UI Experience. Third-Party Application Integration is simple. Easily access System Resources and Hardware. Cloud support makes is more flexible. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** It takes a decade to start Android Studio App. Emulator lags some time unless you have macOS. Application is Heavy as compared to other development tools and Technology **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are developing a Native Android Application for Finance clients. Integration with a Third-Party vendor is easily possible. MarketPlace to install other Add-Ons for more functionality. ### 37. App Development made easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Unnath W. | Senior Android Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** Android application improvement find the advancement and upgrades made in it to push Android application advancement and enable designers to assemble and convey quality applications to allow clients to remain drew in and upbeat. Carrying gradual changes to a current application code or asset is presently simpler and quicker. On account of Instant Run. Code changes can be seen in the emulator or actual gadget on ongoing without restarting the application or building another APK (Android Application Package record) without fail. Including a shrewd Code Editor furnished with IntelliJ IDEA interface, Android Studio makes code composing and examination quicker, simpler and more precise. The most difficult zone has become a cakewalk now. The recently presented emulator is 3x quicker in CPU, RAM, and I/O in contrast with its archetype. The virtual testing climate is quicker than a genuine gadget and has an easy to use UI. Sensor controls are successful to peruse each move of the engineers. Designers can move APKs for speedy establishment, resize and rescale the window, use multi-contact activities and substantially more. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** Android's open-source nature is a gift for engineers, it can likewise be a revile. While malware and hacks target a huge number of Android clients practically week after week, Google rapidly delivers security patches. Shockingly, the vast majority neglect to refresh their telephones consistently. This implies that application engineers regularly need to deal with client information themselves by leading complex encryption, including extra security includes, or keeping away from individual information input inside and out. So life getting tougher to protect data from such attacks and making app development harder. **Recommendations to others considering Android Studio:** if you want to develop an Android app, this is the place for you to learn and build an android app. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** bringing solutions for the problems we face in our day to day life from a website to small tiny mobiles helps everyone to use and interact with the apps. ### 38. A good solution for creating applications **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Omar C. | Software developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** the indexing of files and the way things can be searched **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** spends a lot of computer requirements and sometimes crashes it **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** create and test applications ### 39. Better than other options of building apk **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishal G. | Software consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** Everything at one place and import library support, powered by Google **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** Very very heavy, it needs a good processor with atleast 8 gb ram **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not needed to import libraries manually ### 40. Fast and Easy App Development **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** I love the drag and drop interface its very easy to be able to set up your design literally anyone can code **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** I dislike how slow the simulator can run, this may have more to do with my own Operating System. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am solving the problem of app development, I have realized the benefits of quick and easy design e nice to have all of your tools in one place! ### 41. Hangs too much. Requires a lot of space in your PC **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zahabiya K. | Content writer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** The only thing that I like in Android Studio is its emulator and its features. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** Android studio hangs too much. Takes a lot of time to load. Also, the libraries and files take up a lot of space **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** With its virtual emulator, we can run our program and see what our apps would actually look and work like in our own devices. ### 42. Using Android studio from last 5 years and its really a good experience. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** All the functionality to do code smartly. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** Not disliking. But yes, its needed good hardware configuration. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Code simplicity adoption using studio. And many times it helps me the problem of multiple devices availability.. ### 43. Good IDE for working with android apps **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** I like the big amount of features that it has, and the ui is nice to work with **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** It can be a little bit slow starting up sometimes **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Android studio for our native android app development and testing. It helps us develop, test, organize our android applications. ### 44. Amazing IDE **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** Building best apps. Easy to Learn and use **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** Memory usage and effect on device performance. **Recommendations to others considering Android Studio:** Learning Android Development using Android Studio will take you to good success in your career. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Create best apps.. Many of apps templates i cam use8 ### 45. The best tool for Android development **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** Android Studio is excellent software for developing mobile applications in Kotlin and Java; every small typo or programming error is promptly warned by Android Studio, which most of the time proposes a solution and even explains what was done wrong. In addition, Android Studio can gather most of the tools needed to develop and test the code. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** Although Android Studio has improved a lot in this regard in the last updates, the performance is still below expectations. This problem occurs both in the software itself and in the Android emulator, which has worse performance and higher hardware usage than other solutions found in the market. There are solutions to these problems, but this involves modifications that not every user is willing to make besides that the ideal would be that Android Studio already had a great performance natively. **Recommendations to others considering Android Studio:** All developers who have started their studies in development for Android devices have already been introduced to Android Studio. If you have not yet tested this software and use other alternative software, I recommend that you try Android Studio. It is the tool recommended by Google and has all the functions you need as an Android developer. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Android Studio is a practically mandatory tool for everyone who contributes to developing or maintaining an app for Android, being the best way to analyze and modify projects in programming languages such as Kotlin and Java for mobile devices. ### 46. A complete IDE for building Android apps **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** It is a fully integrated environment for developing and testing Android apps. It is fully supported by Google, giving you access to the Android SDK even before a new version of Android is officially launched. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** It uses Gradle for building projects, which is quite heavy and slow. It downloads a lot of stuff every time you create a new project. **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it to develop and test native Android apps. The main benefits are simplifying code development and maintenance. ### 47. Simple and free **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** It is free and so simple to start programming using this tool **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** Not so simple regarding settings and command line hooks **Recommendations to others considering Android Studio:** Start developing your first app using Kotlin, not Java. Android Jetpack is a huge helper **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps to write an application for Android for our business needs ### 48. Android Studio **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** I like the file search option, auto formate option, automatic build creation option, hot restart no need to create a new build each time to see UI changes **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** RAM Consumptions are too much that I don't like. **Recommendations to others considering Android Studio:** Setup java path before downloading **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving real-world problems with the android studio also crafting design into the code that helps me to solve problems ### 49. A very smart & fun way to create android apps **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sunny H. | Software Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** 1. It has many plugins & extensions for easier development 2. While designing the layout, it gives an exact design of the page we are trying to design in real time 3. Code generation features allow rapid development 4. Integration with Git is like cherries on cake. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** 1. Sometimes, it takes a while to build my projects **What problems is Android Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm using Android Studio to contribute in my project for App developers ### 50. Android is Best these day **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suresh k. | Senior Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Android Studio?** It is very easy to learn. Learning curve is small. You can quickly start with android. Easily mobile application can be developed with small efforts. **What do you dislike about Android Studio?** Adnriod updated very quickly, some our application developlment in prgress and new version released by google. 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