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someone just starting out...what tools can I use to make the dev experience better than just using android studio? Typically I make a small UI change and rerun it to my device....rinse and repeat. Is there better ways?

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Sadly, Android Studio is now the only game in town. My advice would be use AS as close as possible to how the tutorials recommend. Technically you can still build android apps with Eclipse or the cmd line but, as a new user, this will be difficult.

Personally I'm going to skip Android Studio and wait until Google changes their mind again and moves to a new IDE. Should be only a year or so. ;>

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