Android Studio vs Eclipse with ADT (2015) [closed]

Answer 1

Here are some thoughts about how Android Studio team has not been able to become a product of a lot better than Eclipse and why, in my opinion, Google Android Studio will close the project in the near future due to some chronic problems: http://turbocolour.blogspot.com/p/eclipse-adt-vs-android-studio.html

Answer 2

Interesting topic for me: I used to think that Eclipse was a hell of IDE for building Android apps... ironically, now that I am using AS things got worst. For sure AS is much more integrated with the android platform but that is why I would have expected something smoother and hassle free: Eclipse had the excuse of being a general purpose IDE after all. I think the problem lies in the android architecture itself and the related dev tools that makes coding awkward, unpleasant with much lower throughput compared to other more stable platforms.
Google seems not to care too much about changing API and forcing project/code upgrades to make possible to update projects written for previous versions. They seem to not care at all about backward compatibility. They introduce changes their libs, even stripping away entire APIs from the core (apache for instance in Android 6), think about play services (that is becoming now bigger than the OS itself), admob, analytics....they keep on changing and changing forcing to upgrade / change source / re deploy. Every time I see a popup in the dev console about a new feature I feel shivers down my spine. What about the fact they discontinued eclipse while their studio was still unstable and most important not giving decent reliable tools for porting projects ? Have you guys tried to port a big old project into AS ? It’s a kind of hell... I just think they don't care that much about coders cause we ARE A LOT, We do not pay them and want it or not you will have to conform if you want to stay in. I cannot even think about for example Microsoft or Apple doing the same with their dev tools, but it is also true that in such cases you pay them. My opinion of course.

@Eugene

The reason you say this is the same reason aged developers end up without jobs.

Hey kid, RESPECT. Have a look to what the previous generations of coders did for the IT and what your one is doing and then think about what you write. Just give you some names to start your homework: Stallman Knuth Torvalds Berners Lee Wozniak Ritchie Codd Thomson Engelbart and I could continue ....

Answer 3

• Indexing. Causes AStudio to load up in a matter of years. Afterwards, same a Eclipse. +E

• Language support. +A

• Perspectives. One has to actually start fumbling for the different
  windows in AStudio once they need to switch between design / debug / code. This hassle was completely taken care of by the use of
  Perspectives. +E

• Debugger. Incredibly slow to launch in AStudio. Even Running an app
  takes ages to complete in AStudio. And on the rare occasions it
  doesn't, one ends up with all sorts of exceptions in his app under
  development or plainly app won't install any longer. +E

• Support. StackOverflow is the main resource in both cases. Just that with Eclipse there is not much need for it. +E

• UI: AStudio is just eye cancer. Eclipse is such a breeze. +E

• Building: gradle > ant; but Eclipse also offers mvn. Also, this is
  the main reason of slow run/debug -ing in AStudio and there is no way around it. You just have to swallow the pill and wait 15-20 seconds
  every time you change a line of code. +E

• Auto-save: just makes me think Google felt I was retarded and this
  feature would save my life. +E

Final score:

A : E

1 : 7

Which begs the question of why in the world did they switch to AStudio. That being said, we naturally have no say in this, we just blindly follow the Man.

Answer 4

I am new and I started with AS, but soon grew frustrated when it came down to using other developers repositories in my project. The whole aggrevating process and guesswork of migrating them over to the gradle and configuring manually just became over bearing to me, so I went retroactive and downloaded Mars1 and gave it a try. I found it to be a little unintuitive at first, but once it I learned the navigation I fell in love with the openness of it.. I still intend to use Android Studio for all or my releases, but eclipse is now my goto ide right now unless Google tries making some API that is only used in Studio. I like options and hate it when companies try to streamline they lose great experienced developers that way. Also @mistersmith...you probably cannot afford to be that naive. You are going to go the way of the dodo thinking their is only one solution and feeding into corporate garbage. You may not know it, but google is grooming people like you into believing AS is the only practical solution. Just wait until you are forced to migrate to something differnent in the future after buying into AS for all of your mobile application needs.

Answer 5

IMO everything you can do with Android Studio (gradle, maven, etc) you can do it with Eclipse faster and easier and i mean "faster, easier" because in Eclipse if any problems arises like "error XX" you do a quick search on yahoo/google/whatever and thousands of results appears of guys who had the same problem and how to fix it.

I've been programming with Eclipse for C/C++ and Java over 8 years already switching to IntelliJ for me is a total waste of time with translates in a huge loss of money, all my clients wants their apps for yesterday and i can't have the luxury of "playing" and wasting time tweaking a really different IDE while i have bills to pay. So in my case i will 100% stay with Eclipse.

Answer 6

I tried android studio(AS) and it makes your computer very very slow. I have a intel I5 core processor but it takes a lifetime to open AS. I tried to code a little and i see that auto-completion is great in AS. I tried to search the internet how to make AS fast so try it a little more. There are bunch of tutorials that say it can make the AS fast including disabling other programs. With all the hardwork you have to input just to make AS fast, i switched back to Eclipse. Eclipse is a lot lot lot faster than AS. Installing AS just wasted one day of my life.