Best way to build Android apps - Visual Studio or Android Studio?
Can I build an android app through visual studio code or do you guys strongly recommend using android studio code instead? I was considering using VS code since that’s the platform I’m used to using and heard that it works well for android apps as well.
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(2 comments)- 3 months agoTech Lead @ Robinhood, Meta, Course Hero
You should 100% use Android Studio.
I did ~5 minutes of research searching for "Build Android app with Visual Studio" and it seems like you need to install a bunch of extensions just to get it to work while Android Studio works out-of-the-box for Android (obviously). I also think you need to use Xamarin for Visual Studio, which I've seen many engineers complain about as janky.
Android Studio is a quality IDE, and your skills with it are highly transferrable as it's a branch of IntelliJ, an open-source IDE platform that many other IDEs are based off of.
I also recommend these resources around becoming an Android master:
3 Likes - 3 months agoTech Lead/Manager at Meta, Pinterest, Kosei
Definitely use Android Studio.
Beyond being a better tool for the job, if you work professionally as an Android Dev, your team will almost certainly use AS, and that should be an input into your decision.
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