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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.
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)
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.
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 bet176
- Google's official android ide103
- Intelligent code editor with lots of auto-completion37
- Its powerful and robust25
- Easy creating android app5
- Amazing Layout Designer3
- Great Code Tips3
- Great tool & very helpful3
- Easy to use2
- Built in Emulator2
- Keyboard Shortcuts are Amazing Out of the box2
Pros of Visual Studio Code
- Powerful multilanguage IDE336
- Fast304
- Front-end develop out of the box193
- Support TypeScript IntelliSense158
- Very basic but free142
- Git integration125
- Intellisense106
- Faster than Atom77
- Better ui, easy plugins, and nice git integration53
- Great Refactoring Tools44
- Good Plugins43
- Terminal41
- Superb markdown support37
- Open Source36
- Extensions34
- Large & up-to-date extension community26
- Awesome UI26
- Powerful and fast23
- Portable21
- Best code editor18
- Best editor17
- Easy to get started with16
- Crossplatform15
- Built on Electron15
- Good for begginers15
- Lots of extensions15
- Extensions for everything14
- All Languages Support14
- Open, cross-platform, fast, monthly updates14
- Easy to use and learn13
- "fast, stable & easy to use"12
- Extensible12
- Git out of the box11
- Useful for begginer11
- Ui design is great11
- Faster edit for slow computer11
- Totally customizable11
- Great community10
- Fast Startup9
- Powerful Debugger9
- Great language support9
- It has terminal and there are lots of shortcuts in it9
- SSH support9
- Works With Almost EveryThing You Need9
- Can compile and run .py files8
- Python extension is fast8
- Great document formater7
- Features rich7
- Awesome multi cursor support6
- She is not Rachel6
- He is not Michael6
- VSCode.pro Course makes it easy to learn5
- Extension Echosystem5
- Very proffesional5
- Language server client5
- Easy azure5
- SFTP Workspace5
- Has better support and more extentions for debugging4
- Excellent as git difftool and mergetool4
- Virtualenv integration4
- More tools to integrate with vs3
- Better autocompletes than Atom3
- Emmet preinstalled3
- Has more than enough languages for any developer3
- Supports lots of operating systems3
- 'batteries included'3
- Fast and ruby is built right in2
- Customizable2
- VS Code Server: Browser version of VS Code2
- CMake support with autocomplete2
- Light2
- Microsoft2
- Big extension marketplace1
- Good1
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Cons of Android Studio
- Huge memory usage4
- Slow emulator4
- Complex for begginers2
- No checking incompatibilities2
- Lags behind IntelliJ IDEA1
- Using Intellij IDEA, while Intellij IDEA have too1
- Slow release process1
Cons of Visual Studio Code
- Slow startup45
- Resource hog at times28
- Poor refactoring20
- Microsoft15
- Poor UI Designer13
- Weak Ui design tools11
- Poor autocomplete10
- Microsoft sends telemetry data8
- Poor in PHP7
- Huge cpu usage with few installed extension7
- Super Slow7
- It's MicroSoft5
- No built in live Preview3
- No Built in Browser Preview3
- Poor in Python3
- Electron3
- No color Intergrator3
- Very basic for java development and buggy at times3
- Powered by Electron2
- Bad Plugin Architecture2
- Terminal does not identify path vars sometimes1
- Slow C++ Language Server1
