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Followers8.3K

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Android Studio vs Xcode: 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 Xcode? The complete toolset for building great apps. 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.

Android Studio and Xcode can be categorized as "Integrated Development Environment" tools.

Some of the features offered by Android Studio are:

Flexible Gradle-based build system.
Build variants and multiple APK generation.
Expanded template support for Google Services and various device types.

On the other hand, Xcode provides the following key features:

Source Editor
Assistant Editor
Asset Catalog

"Android studio is a great tool, getting better and bet " is the top reason why over 164 developers like Android Studio, while over 127 developers mention "IOS Development" as the leading cause for choosing Xcode.

According to the StackShare community, Xcode has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1051 company stacks & 603 developers stacks; compared to Android Studio, which is listed in 928 company stacks and 690 developer stacks.

Pros of Android Studio

Pros of Xcode

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Android studio is a great tool, getting better and bet
100
Google's official android ide
35
Intelligent code editor with lots of auto-completion
25
Its powerful and robust
5
Easy creating android app
3
Amazing Layout Designer
3
Great tool & very helpful
3
Great Code Tips
2
Built in Emulator
2
Keyboard Shortcuts are Amazing Out of the box
2
Easy to use
1
Cc

129
IOS Development
32
Personal assistant on steroids
29
Easy setup
17
Excellent integration with Clang
1
Beautiful
1
Built-in everything
0
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Cons of Android Studio

Cons of Xcode

4
Huge memory usage
4
Slow emulator
2
No checking incompatibilities
2
Complex for begginers
1
Lags behind IntelliJ IDEA
1
Slow release process

4
Massively bloated and complicated for smaller projects
2
Horrible auto completiting and text editing
1
Very slow emulator

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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 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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What are some alternatives to Android Studio and Xcode?

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.

Flutter

Flutter is a mobile app SDK to help developers and designers build modern mobile apps for iOS and Android.

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