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Alternative to android studio

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there are many alternatives to android studion which include
1.netbeans
2.eclipse
note:they require android SDK
3.IntelliJ IDEA.
and many more NOTE this works on low performance laptop
 
Eclipse is no longer the officially recommended Android IDE. I don't see why you'd use that in preference to Android Studio, which is far superior.

Also, Android Studio is IntelliJ.

Visual Studio 2017 has good support for Android, and excellent cross platform development capabilities, using Xamarin.
 
LV426 said:
Eclipse is no longer the officially recommended Android IDE. I don't see why you'd use that in preference to Android Studio, which is far superior.

Also, Android Studio is IntelliJ.

Visual Studio 2017 has good support for Android, and excellent cross platform development capabilities, using Xamarin.
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yes but is 20gb
 
Can you recommend a fully featured Android IDE that can run with minimal RAM then?
 
Mate, not wishing to labour this point, but if you're starting a technical thread, then you owe it to readers to get the facts correct. Otherwise people will be confused.

To start with, Android Studio IS IntelliJ. It's IntelliJ with added plugins, to make Android app development easier.

Secondly, Android Studio takes nothing like 2GB RAM to run. Here's a screenshot from my Ubuntu system from htop, which shows a resident set size of the Java process at 812MB. If you have a decent swap partition, there's no problem running this along with other processes. As you can see, I've got chromium taking up another fair chunk of RAM, and that is because I've got about a billion tabs open.

Can you post any data you have that backs up your claim that Android Studio requires 4GB RAM to run? Well, I can believe this in the Windows world, where the O/S itself takes a huge amount of RAM, but that's not the fault of Android Studio is it?

And you didn't really answer my question about recommendations for an alternative IDE that consumes less memory. Bearing in mind that IntelliJ IS Android Studio, so that's not an alternative to Android Studio. Which is the whole point of this thread.


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In my opinion Android Studio is the absolute best. I have a few systems at home: One being an old 2008 dell studio running xubuntu with a dual core and 4gb of ram and Android Studio runs just fine on it. When AS was still in beta it was still just about better than everything else.

I never liked eclipse. Found it too buggy.

I think all android app devs should stick with AS since it's the standard. It will also have the best support for kotlin since jetbrains(intellij) created kotlin. And as already pointed out by LV426 intellij and AS are basically one in the same.
 
Honestly, if there is something better than AS, I'd like to know about it. And yeah, forget Eclipse, even if it does take less memory, which I doubt, AS is miles better in terms of features and quality.

But I'm really interested in all these "many other" alternatives that are better. Netbeans I haven't used, but I doubt it'll be substantially more economical on memory or CPU usage.
 
Used AndroidStudio, NetBeans, Eclipse and Visual Studio. My favourite two are Visual Studio and Android Studio. I moved to Visual Studio with Xamarin to look at cross platform and maybe I'm just not anti-Microsoft enough.
 
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