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IntelliJ 12's Android support is vastly superior to Eclipse, in addition to being just a better Java IDE overall. I'm now very curious to know just how different Android Studio will be from IntelliJ.

I'd guess it's going to something akin to the difference between JetBrains' RubyMine and Ruby/Rails plugin support inside IntelliJ -- same overall functionality with better UX integration for the domain.

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Even the community edition[1] supports android development. Just point IntelliJ at your android sdk installation folder, and you're off to the races!

[1]: http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/android.html

But I think this version is not the same as Android Studio community edition.

You're right, it isn't.

This post[1] from JetBrains helped clear the situation up for me.

[1]: http://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2013/05/15/intellij-idea-is-t...

If you switch the preview released today[1], it's nearly the same as Intellij (even the build numbers almost line up at 130.xx). I just prefer the Intellij preview for some of the features one cannot get in the Android focused IDE Google previewed.

[1] http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2013/05/intellij-idea-13-ear...

Obviously, IntelliJ Ultimate edition is a superset of most JetBrain products.

It looks like there's some pretty deep integration with the Resource system in Android, and some cool layout tools.

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