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> Plus the Android tooling is horrible to get working reliably - most problems being solved by "restart eclipse"

Try Intellij IDEA / Android Studio. I find them quite reliable.

Intellij IDEA, yes.

Android Studio seems to still have performance issues with Gradle on Windows, specially when indexing stuff.

Agreed. I prefer IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition to Android Studio because I like using the same IDE for Android and Java development.