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Android Studio vs Genymotion: What are the differences?

What is Android Studio? Android development environment based on IntelliJ IDEA. Android Studio is a new Android development environment based on IntelliJ IDEA. It provides new features and improvements over Eclipse ADT and will be the official Android IDE once it's ready.

What is Genymotion? A cross-platform Android emulator. It is a cross-platform Android emulator for developers & QA engineers. Develop & automate your tests to deliver best quality apps. On desktop, AWS, GCP & SaaS.

Android Studio can be classified as a tool in the "Integrated Development Environment" category, while Genymotion is grouped under "Desktop Browser Mobile App Emulators".

According to the StackShare community, Android Studio has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1265 company stacks & 4055 developers stacks; compared to Genymotion, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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William Pyke

Sep 10, 2019 | 0 upvotes · 466K views

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Android Studio

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Visual Studio

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The problem I have is whether to choose Android Studio or Visual Studio? I have to develop a simple app for a school project that can work on both iPhone and Android.

The most important factors for me are Android and iOS compatibility. Although note that i would like to become a Software Engineer when i finish my course. (I'd like to work for Apple, just saying!)

After that id like easy integration for Google Ads and such if i do develop another app that people actually use to support development. (I'd also like to stick with one easy programming language that's compatible with a wide variety of platforms since i'm a beginner and have only ever used Pascal)

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Nekromancer

Jul 16, 2020 | 3 upvotes · 464.7K views

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Flutter

First of all - Android Studio and Visual Studio are IDE's. Tools to create code. What you are asking is programming framework. I assume that when you are talking about Android Studio you mean Native Android Development and by Visual Studio you mean Xamarin.

If you want to create crossplatform app then Native Android Development is NOT a way to go. Xamarin might work for you, BUT - you'd rather recommend you to go with Flutter. It's much more performant than Xamarin, programming model is friendlier for developer and technology seems just more refined. It's also officially supported by google, so no worries about support.

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Pros of Android Studio

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Android studio is a great tool, getting better and bet
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Google's official android ide
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Intelligent code editor with lots of auto-completion
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Its powerful and robust
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Easy creating android app
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Amazing Layout Designer
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Great Code Tips
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Great tool & very helpful
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Easy to use
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Built in Emulator
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Keyboard Shortcuts are Amazing Out of the box

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Cons of Android Studio

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Huge memory usage
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Slow emulator
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Complex for begginers
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No checking incompatibilities
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Lags behind IntelliJ IDEA
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Using Intellij IDEA, while Intellij IDEA have too
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Slow release process

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What is Android Studio?

Android Studio is a new Android development environment based on IntelliJ IDEA. It provides new features and improvements over Eclipse ADT and will be the official Android IDE once it's ready.

What is Genymotion?

It is a cross-platform Android emulator for developers & QA engineers. Develop & automate your tests to deliver best quality apps. On desktop, AWS, GCP & SaaS.

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What are some alternatives to Android Studio and Genymotion?

IntelliJ IDEA

Out of the box, IntelliJ IDEA provides a comprehensive feature set including tools and integrations with the most important modern technologies and frameworks for enterprise and web development with Java, Scala, Groovy and other languages.

Visual Studio

Visual Studio is a suite of component-based software development tools and other technologies for building powerful, high-performance applications.

Eclipse

Standard Eclipse package suited for Java and plug-in development plus adding new plugins; already includes Git, Marketplace Client, source code and developer documentation. Click here to file a bug against Eclipse Platform.

Xamarin

Xamarin’s Mono-based products enable .NET developers to use their existing code, libraries and tools (including Visual Studio*), as well as skills in .NET and the C# programming language, to create mobile applications for the industry’s most widely-used mobile devices, including Android-based smartphones and tablets, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

Xcode

The Xcode IDE is at the center of the Apple development experience. Tightly integrated with the Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks, Xcode is an incredibly productive environment for building amazing apps for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

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