Yesterday I tried to set up a web project in IntelliJ IDEA 14 CE and Android Studio. It did not work because all the necessary plugins are reserved for the commercial version of IntelliJ IDEA. Which is fine with me. They are running a business after all. But I guess that may prove your point. It's not really an entirely "open" IDE and not entirely Open Source, since some features are locked away behind a paywall and the community does not deliver Open Source alternatives, yet. Anyway, after two weeks of daily use of Android Studio I have to agree with what kj said. I prefer IntelliJ over Eclipse because of so many little things.
To be on thread topic here: the features that "wow" me most at the moment are the intelligent code completion <http://jetbrains.dzone.com/articles/top-20-code-completions-in-intellij-idea>, the resource value previews (strings, constants, drawables) that are embedded directly in the source code, and the whole "project configuration through Gradle build files thing". Kind of neat. What drives me nuts at the moment are the bugs. The logcat view is always empty for me and makes the IDE unstable when open. Android Studio also tends to slow down my machine after a few hours of work. And my biggest pet peeve are the default keyboard shortcuts that are not entirely suitable for work on KDE, since some are already defined there. I also do not understand why the default shortcuts are so deliberately non-standard. But other than that I'm happy with Android Studio. On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 7:14:57 AM UTC-8, JackN wrote: > > Perhap we think we know too much, and miss the obvious. > > > > On Monday, February 2, 2015 at 9:05:17 PM UTC-8, TreKing wrote: > >> >> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 9:16 AM, JackN <ja...@jacknorth.com> wrote: >> >>> Uh, ANDROID studio.... doesn't sound very open to me. Sounds like >>> ANDROID only... >> >> >> Perhaps there is a language barrier here. "Open" usually refers to "open >> source", which Android Studio is. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago >> transit tracking app for Android-powered devices >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
