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Android Studio

Google's official IDE for building Android apps

Android Studio is the official development environment for Android, built by Google on the IntelliJ platform. It provides Kotlin and Java editing, a visual layout editor, Jetpack Compose previews, an emulator, profilers and Gradle builds for phones, tablets, Wear OS, Android TV and cars. Gemini in Android Studio adds AI help for writing code and fixing errors. It is free on Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS.

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Updated
Oct 12, 2026

Features

Our take

Pros

  • Official, complete Android toolkit, free on all desktop systems
  • Emulator, profilers and Compose previews built in
  • Gemini helps write code and fix build errors

Cons

  • Heavy on RAM and CPU, especially with the emulator running
  • Gradle builds can be slow on large projects

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