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To be honest, everything about Android seems like a bit of a mess to me - the APIs, the tools, plus all the things from the user's perspective.

The official documentation is worse - everything seems to be a mess of contradictions and constantly changing ways of doing things, with the documentation never catching up.

Yes it's a dirty world overall, but Android Studio - all its issues notwithstanding - is a great improvement over Eclipse regardless, and an awesome IDE. At least in terms of software design as such.

Yeah I agree that has been the case but lowering memory usage has been a target of recent for Android Studio - See https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/index.html#3-1...

It's even using less memory than chrome lately.

Using less memory than chrome is the very definition of faint praise.

Seriously. I've gone back to vim completely (from my previous mix of Studio and vim). Browser tabs and gradle, alone, max out my laptop's 8gb ram. If I were to throw Studio into the mix, I'd have to close Firefox!