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bricestacey | 11 years ago

If you are doing traditional app development then Android Studio is by far the superior choice. The gradle integrations make everything one liners without having to manage a ton of random plugins or master a build system. It just works.

Also, not to belittle your investment in Eclipse, but counting university is laughable and unless you're a maestro and use some random plugins that make you a 10x developer you're probably better off switching.

As others have mentioned you can change your keymap to Eclipse, or just learn new ones. Hell, I only know 4 keystrokes: autocomplete, find class by name/click, rename variable/method, and reformat code. Yet somehow I am successful -- I doubt it's my IDE. It's just effortless and I don't have to deal with stupid build crap while writing code. Granted, I don't know much about modern Eclipse, I haven't used it for two years.

If it weren't too much effort I'd be writing java in vim where I have almost 8 years experience, but I haven't gotten around to bothering because my environment is not the bottleneck to writing good code. It's probably more the crappy Android APIs and unexpected behaviors of standard libs that will unlikely be timely fixed.

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