Android Studio Reviews & Insights

Score9 out of 10

92 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Android Studio are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Wide Device Support: Users have expressed their satisfaction with the wide variety of android devices supported by the platform for app development, encompassing mobile phones, tablets, TVs, and other devices. This extensive compatibility ensures that developers can target a diverse range of hardware configurations effectively.

Great User Interface: The excellent user interface of the platform has been consistently praised by reviewers as a standout feature that significantly enhances the overall user experience. Its intuitive design and smooth navigation contribute to a seamless development process.

Extensive Library Support: Customers highly value the comprehensive library support offered by the IDE, deeming it superior to other Integrated Development Environments available in the market. The robust library resources empower developers to efficiently access and integrate various functionalities into their projects.

Android Studio Reviews

5 Reviews

Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees)

The best IDE to develop android apps

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 16, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Android Studio is a well-known tool that is used to develop apps for android devices and is widely used to develop, test, debug, and deploy Android apps. It has an inbuilt emulator which supports many device models and configurations. It provides a beautiful development environment where we easily develop and deploy working Android apps.

Pros

We can develop apps for all types of android devices, whether it is mobile, tablet, TV, etc.
It has one of the great user interfaces.
It has more library support than other IDEs.
Well documented and large community.

Cons

Debugging is not that great, it can show some specific details for a better understanding of the issue.
It is a RAM eater tool, its hard to do multitask along with the android studio.
Sometimes after updating the android studio, we have to face so many random issues with the SDK or codes.

Likelihood to Recommend

Android Studio is well suited in the case of any type of android app development. It is also widely used for testing, debugging, and improving the app. It might not be suitable for you if your system has low configurations, like in less than 4 GB ram, it's nearly impossible to build apps.

Lokesh Singh

Jr. App Developer in Information Technology at FlipPaisa (Internet, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Best tool for Android app development

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 28, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

[Android Studio is] being used mostly by the engineering team, and that too specifically by the Android engineers coding in Kotlin / Java, along with the Product Management and Quality Analyst teams. Since it's an app development tool, it doesn't find any use case with the non technical departments and is only used by technology teams.

Pros

Quick to learn and easy to use
Debugging is super easy
Open source

Cons

Needs high performance system/laptop
Leads to crashes on most basic windows laptops as it takes a lot of RAM
Need to make system level changes to let flutter work with this

Likelihood to Recommend

[Android Studio is] best suited for beginners and even intermediate developers as it offers complete assistance and highlights errors and suggestion to improvise the code. It even predicts the code with a good level of accuracy to help the developer who are new. It's. It well suited for large scale teams as it needs high performing systems as well as it's not the optimum tool for collaboration coding. Though you could integrate with git and make it work, but other solutions might be better for large scale teams.

Verified User

Vice-President in Product Management (Internet company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Best IDE for Android app development. But needs more improvements.

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

May 31, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have been using Android Studio for the past three years. It is used across the whole team in our company. Android Studio is the official IDE for Android application development. This contains many tools for building and testing your Android app very effectively. Studio is available in Windows, Linux and Mac OS and it is completely free to use.

Pros

Android Studio can be used to develop quality applications in Android devices such as Phone, Tablet, Wearable, TV and Android Auto.
Support for C/ C++ code using Android NDK.
Support for different testing tools and frameworks.

Cons

Android Studio is not light weighted. It cannot be used on low configuration machines.
Emulator is very slow.
Takes too long to build and run.

Likelihood to Recommend

Android Studio is one of the best IDEs for Android app development. It has a lot of useful features such as Emulator, Android NDK, Plugins, Code hints, Java to Kotlin conversion, etc. But there needs to be more improvements and optimization. Android Studio needs powerful machines to run smoothly. This is where Studio becomes less appropriate.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (Information Technology & Services company, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

The Best Android Application Developing IDE

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 30, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

From my University life, I started developing mobile applications. Most of the smartphone companies made thousands of Android mobile devices, including Android watches, TV boxes and many more. Android is fully customizable mobile operating system developing by Google. Android Studio is developed by Google and it allows users to develop Android applications compatible with any of the devices. Android Studio is always up to date.

Pros

Comes with Emulator facilities.
Updates with latest Android libraries and technologies.
Open source and fully free to use.

Cons

Getting more processing power to run for both developing IDE and Emulator.
The updating process is very slow.

Likelihood to Recommend

Android Studio provides 100% of pure Android application development facilities to the developer.

Mary Paula

Software Engineer in Information Technology at Actronicx (Information Technology & Services, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

Android Studio for teachers and authors

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

October 29, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Android Studio in my dual capacity as both a teacher and an author. I teach computer science at a liberal arts college, and I write books on Android and Flutter app development. The only others in my organization who use Android Studio are students in some of my courses. For my work writing Android app development books, Android Studio is the only reasonable alternative. (As far as I know, the number of Android developers who don't use Android Studio is near zero.) For development in Flutter, I use Android Studio because I've been told that it's the most mature platform for Flutter development. I have reason to believe this because Android Studio and Flutter come from the same company; namely, Google.

Pros

Features customized for Android and Flutter development. For example, it has Java-to-Kotlin translation for Android and easy widget wrapping for Flutter.
Good refactoring tools.
Highly customizable.

Cons

Unlike Eclipse, Android Studio has no concept of a workspace. Each window houses only one project. It's not very easy to jump between projects.
Android Studio isn't lightweight. It consumes lots of memory and takes lots of time to perform certain tasks.
I frequently see ignorable messages telling me that Android Studio has encountered an error (an error in the IDE, not an error in my code). I've never bothered to find the source of these messages because the messages go away quickly, and they don't keep me from running my code.

Likelihood to Recommend

Android Studio is the official IDE for Android App development. If you're writing Android apps, you have to use Android Studio. (Maybe there are some other IDEs but I've never seen anyone use any others.) For Flutter development, I intend to try VS Code and some other environments when I have time. I'm told that other environments are useful but not as feature-rich.

Barry Burd

Professor at Drew University (Higher Education, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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Android Studio for teachers and authors

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

October 29, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Features customized for Android and Flutter development. For example, it has Java-to-Kotlin translation for Android and easy widget wrapping for Flutter.
Good refactoring tools.
Highly customizable.

Cons

Unlike Eclipse, Android Studio has no concept of a workspace. Each window houses only one project. It's not very easy to jump between projects.
Android Studio isn't lightweight. It consumes lots of memory and takes lots of time to perform certain tasks.
I frequently see ignorable messages telling me that Android Studio has encountered an error (an error in the IDE, not an error in my code). I've never bothered to find the source of these messages because the messages go away quickly, and they don't keep me from running my code.

Likelihood to Recommend

Barry Burd

Professor at Drew University (Higher Education, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience