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With the improved android support, is there any good reason to keep Android Studio installed on my workstation?

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Well the price is definitely a good one. Then only one, as far as I can tell.

What are the main advantages of IntelliJ IDEA with respect to Android Studio?

> Well the price is definitely a good one. Then only one, as far as I can tell.

IntelliJ Idea Community Edition includes the Android support as well.

> What are the main advantages of IntelliJ IDEA with respect to Android Studio?

Android Studio can only handle Android projects, but gets Android features a bit quicker. Those are the only differences between CE and AS. UE adds some advanced features (web, java EE), some of which are supposedly in the pipeline to be open-sourced (code coverage, advanced refactoring).

We use it for its outstanding grails support, so we're already paying for it. If it can keep up with Android Studio I can get away with using only IDEA instead of IDEA + Android Studio.

Android Studio is always ahead in Android support, so if you want to take advantage of some new feature in a future update, you'll have to wait for Intellij to get it. That said, most common things like gradle support and SDK support are useable since version 13.

Afaik they ported improvements made in Android Studio back into the 'mother platform' with this new version, so the IntelliJ Android plug-in should be on par with Android Studio.

Does IntelliJ Idea offer all the same stuff as Android Studio in regard to Android support? Doesn't Google add anything from themselves?

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