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I've not done any Android development but how is IntelliJ for it? While it can be slow on big codebases and obviously never as responsive as vim in a terminal, I think the tooling is excellent.

But again, you have to spend a month or so learning the shortcuts.




IntelliJ has an excellent vim keybinding plugin which I use (having come from Linux/scripting/Vim background to Java). Intellij also makes setting shortcuts pretty easy so you can customize to your needs. Having used both Eclipse and IntelliJ, I prefer the latter.


I haven’t used IntelliJ, only Android Studio which I know is based on IntelliJ but don’t know how much they differ. I find it to be a klunky UI and it easily eats all the CPU on a 2015 3.1 GHz MBP doing things like self-updating, downloading newer SDK versions, re-indexing a small repo, etc. I personally find it pretty unusable. There’s also parts of the UI you can’t even access (like the SDK manager and the AVD manager) unless you have a project open. It’s pretty obviously not a Mac native tool. I assume (hope anyway) it’s much better on Linux.




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