10 engineers on Hacker News describe using Android Studio first-hand: 3 endorse it, 3 regret it, 3 are mixed.
“I still had to download android studio and build the app but it was not difficult at all.”
endorse · production · BizarroLand · 2026-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Every release, Android Studio somehow gets slower. A couple years ago, I used to be able to build, test on emulator, and deploy”
regret · personal · araes · 2023-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Every time I enter android studio, it wants to update... Each update has 20% chance to cause build errors on this project”
regret · personal · jmiskovic · 2019-05-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It wasn't terrible, but even that wasn't a seamless experience - the emulator stuff had a few problems”
mixed · personal · majormajor · 2018-02-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I recently tried to pick up a 3 month old project in Android Studio and it took me around 3 hours just to get it to compile again”
regret · personal · alistproducer2 · 2016-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Android Studio is great when it works, but it's been a rocky path to 1.0.”
mixed · personal · Tekker · 2014-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the build system seems to work much more reliably for me, when it would randomly fail for me frequently in Eclipse.”
endorse · production · wjoe · 2014-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“having installed the JDK 8 u25 on Mac OSX, Android Studio wouldn't run.”
mixed · personal · 72deluxe · 2014-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I personally have been using it for ~18 months as my daily driver IDE.”
endorse · production · 1.5 yr · krschultz · 2014-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We replaced ant with gradle when we switched to Android studio.”
neutral · production · on_and_off · 2016-04-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?