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Android Studio vs Visual Studio Code: 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 Visual Studio Code? Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft. Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
Android Studio can be classified as a tool in the "Integrated Development Environment" category, while Visual Studio Code is grouped under "Text Editor".
"Android studio is a great tool, getting better and bet " is the top reason why over 164 developers like Android Studio, while over 237 developers mention "Powerful multilanguage IDE" as the leading cause for choosing Visual Studio Code.
Visual Studio Code is an open source tool with 79.4K GitHub stars and 11.1K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Visual Studio Code's open source repository on GitHub.
Asana, Microsoft, and Intuit are some of the popular companies that use Visual Studio Code, whereas Android Studio is used by Google, Lyft, and 9GAG. Visual Studio Code has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1134 company stacks & 2381 developers stacks; compared to Android Studio, which is listed in 928 company stacks and 692 developer stacks.
Visual Studio Code became famous over the past 3+ years I believe. The clean UI, easy to use UX and the plethora of integrations made it a very easy decision for us. Our gripe with Sublime was probably only the UX side. VSCode has not failed us till now, and still is able to support our development env without any significant effort.
Goland being paid, as well as built only for Go seemed like a significant limitation to not consider it.
I decided to choose VSCode over Sublime text for my Systems Programming class in C. What I love about VSCode is its awesome ability to add extensions. Intellisense is a beautiful debugger, and Remote SSH allows me to login and make real-time changes in VSCode to files on my university server. This is an awesome alternative to going back and forth on pushing/pulling code and logging into servers in the terminal. Great choice for anyone interested in C programming!
Pros of Android Studio
- Android studio is a great tool, getting better and bet171
- Google's official android ide100
- Intelligent code editor with lots of auto-completion35
- Its powerful and robust25
- Easy creating android app5
- Amazing Layout Designer3
- Great tool & very helpful3
- Great Code Tips3
- Built in Emulator2
- Keyboard Shortcuts are Amazing Out of the box2
- Easy to use2
- Cc1
Pros of Visual Studio Code
- Powerful multilanguage IDE303
- Fast264
- Front-end develop out of the box168
- Support TypeScript IntelliSense145
- Very basic but free121
- Git integration99
- Intellisense85
- Faster than Atom69
- Better ui, easy plugins, and nice git integration40
- Great Refactoring Tools36
- Superb markdown support34
- Good Plugins32
- Terminal27
- Large & up-to-date extension community21
- Open Source18
- Extensions17
- Portable16
- Powerful and fast15
- Awesome UI15
- Built on Electron13
- Best code editor12
- Open, cross-platform, fast, monthly updates11
- Easy to get started with10
- Crossplatform10
- Extensible9
- Lots of extensions9
- Best editor9
- All Languages Support9
- Extensions for everything8
- Good for begginers8
- Easy to use and learn8
- Ui design is great8
- Totally customizable7
- Great community7
- "fast, stable & easy to use"7
- Faster edit for slow computer7
- Git out of the box7
- Useful for begginer7
- It has terminal and there are lots of shortcuts in it7
- Great language support6
- SSH support6
- He is not Michael5
- Great document formater5
- She is not Rachel5
- Works With Almost EveryThing You Need5
- Powerful Debugger5
- Fast Startup5
- Easy azure4
- Awesome multi cursor support4
- SFTP Workspace4
- Python extension is fast4
- Features rich4
- Extension Echosystem4
- Can compile and run .py files4
- Language server client4
- VSCode.pro Course makes it easy to learn4
- Has more than enough languages for any developer3
- Excellent as git difftool and mergetool3
- Has better support and more extentions for debugging3
- 'batteries included'3
- Fast and ruby is built right in2
- Better autocompletes than Atom2
- Virtualenv integration2
- CMake support with autocomplete2
- More tools to integrate with vs2
- Emmet preinstalled2
- VS Code Server: Browser version of VS Code2
- Very proffesional1
- Light1
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Cons of Android Studio
- Huge memory usage4
- Slow emulator4
- No checking incompatibilities2
- Complex for begginers2
- Lags behind IntelliJ IDEA1
- Slow release process1
Cons of Visual Studio Code
- Slow startup29
- Resource hog at times17
- Poor refactoring14
- Poor UI Designer9
- Weak Ui design tools8
- Poor autocomplete5
- Poor in PHP4
- Microsoft2
- Poor at Python2
- Poor in Python1
- Super Slow1
- Dilshad1
- Microsoft sends telemetry data1
- Poor intellisense. poor java1
