Android Studio vs Mercurial

Overview

Mercurial

Stacks229

Followers219

Votes105

Android Studio

Stacks25.5K

Followers20.3K

Votes361

Android Studio vs Mercurial: What are the differences?

Developers describe Android Studio as "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. On the other hand, Mercurial is detailed as "A distributed version control system". Mercurial is dedicated to speed and efficiency with a sane user interface. It is written in Python. Mercurial's implementation and data structures are designed to be fast. You can generate diffs between revisions, or jump back in time within seconds.

Android Studio and Mercurial are primarily classified as "Integrated Development Environment" and "Version Control System" tools respectively.

"Android studio is a great tool, getting better and bet " is the top reason why over 164 developers like Android Studio, while over 15 developers mention "Easy-to-grasp system with nice tools" as the leading cause for choosing Mercurial.

Lyft, Zillow, and PedidosYa are some of the popular companies that use Android Studio, whereas Mercurial is used by Performance Assessment Network (PAN), Bitbucket, and Eyereturn Marketing. Android Studio has a broader approval, being mentioned in 916 company stacks & 670 developers stacks; compared to Mercurial, which is listed in 26 company stacks and 16 developer stacks.

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Advice on Mercurial, Android Studio

William

Sep 10, 2019

Needs advice

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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Detailed Comparison

Mercurial	Android Studio
Mercurial is dedicated to speed and efficiency with a sane user interface. It is written in Python. Mercurial's implementation and data structures are designed to be fast. You can generate diffs between revisions, or jump back in time within seconds.	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.
-	Flexible Gradle-based build system.;Build variants and multiple APK generation.;Expanded template support for Google Services and various device types.;Rich layout editor with support for theme editing.;Lint tools to catch performance, usability, version compatibility, and other problems.;ProGuard and app-signing capabilities.;Built-in support for Google Cloud Platform, making it easy to integrate Google Cloud Messaging and App Engine.
Statistics
Stacks 229	Stacks 25.5K
Followers 219	Followers 20.3K
Votes 105	Votes 361
Pros & Cons
Pros 18 A lot easier to extend than git 17 Easy-to-grasp system with nice tools 13 Works on windows natively without cygwin nonsense 11 Written in python 9 Free Cons 0 Track single upstream only 0 Does not distinguish between local and remote head	Pros 176 Android studio is a great tool, getting better and bet 103 Google's official android ide 37 Intelligent code editor with lots of auto-completion 25 Its powerful and robust 5 Easy creating android app Cons 4 Slow emulator 4 Huge memory usage 2 No checking incompatibilities 2 Complex for begginers 2 Using Intellij IDEA, while Intellij IDEA have too
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Eclipse

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CLion

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