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Reading through the first few comments here, I haven't seen anyone say that they prefer Android Studio over XCode or Visusl Studio.

When I had a choice years ago to go down the Java path or the .Net path, I chose the .Net path partly because of the quality of the development tools. Also I trusted MS to evokve the language more than I trusted Sun and now Oracle.

I launched Android Studio and it still had the "Java stink" to it that all Java based GUIs have.

But XCode and IOS development definitely is a lot more polished experience than Android development.

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I think it's more that it doesn't really need to be said.

I use Android Studio, Xcode and Visual Studio daily. I prefer Android Studio by a mile because of the great integration with testing, build tools and command line. It's slightly more productive than Visual Studio, and both Visual Studio and Android Studio are leaps and bounds better than Xcode which spends 10 minutes trying to make sense of C++ code and then crashes when you scroll around a storyboard while throwing up bouncing colored doom balls every few minutes.

EDIT: Choosing a job because of those things sounds like something you'll regret in the future. There are far more important considerations than 'Java stink'.

There is nothing more important than not being stuck with using a tool everyday for 8 hours a day that you hate.

After using R# everyday with Visusl Studio for years, I got a job that wouldn't provide Resharper for developers. I bought it myself without a second thought. I want the tools I use to be seamless as possible.

As far as the other reason I chose to base my career on .Net rather than Java once I decided to move away from C++ bit twiddling - that I trusted Microsoft to evolve the platform more than Sun, in hindsight it seemed prescient.

Ah interesting. To me that just sounds like saying there's nothing you hate more than using a hammer when you could be using a screwdriver, and this is from using a lot of VS and Eclipse/idea. I can see where you're coming from though, and of course, different people are different.

At the end of the day, all that matters is what matters to you.

> I haven't seen anyone say that they prefer Android Studio over XCode or Visusl Studio.

I'll say it, I vastly prefer Android Studio over XCode. And I'm an Android Developer who uses Android Studio every single day.

I do like Visual Studio a lot as well, it has been a nice experience for all of the times I've used it. But I prefer to develop in the languages and environments supported by IntelliJ + Android Studio (Java, Android, Ruby) over Xamarin-based .NET work available in Visual Studio.

I, too, work in Visual Studio predominantly. That being said, I've used and liked WebStorm and IDEA. I've played around with Android Studio and as a non-Android developer (someone who just gets an itch to dabble), it is orders of magnitude better than the same experience in Eclipse. An IDE I actually like (or liked. Haven't done Java development in a while, but that web hosted IDE thing looks promising) for regular Java application development.

Android Studio I probably like better than XCode because it feels more akin to Visual Studio. XCode I really want to like, but it feels incredibly foreign vs Visual Studio-like UIs. Though I hear people that love it, so there you go.

I do IOS development, Android Development and used to but no longer do Windows/XBox/PS3 development. My preference by best overall to worst would be Visual Studio/Android Studio/command line/XCode.

Here's mine:

Visual Studio > XCode > Notepad > driveway chalk and a hose > Android Studio > Eclipse

The last time I installed Visual Studio it was a bloated pig that spayed over 30GB of data all over my SSD.

Now it's just 400MBs if you only want C# (WPF + WinForms) Desktop apps. My workloads add up to around 12GB (C#, UWP, ASP.NET, .NET Core, NodeJS, Python, F#).

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