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Re:It’s Been Real, Android: Why I’m Retiring from Android by 27182818284 on Thursday October 13, 2016 @11:07AM (#12701208)
>You can open Android Studio, create a new project and "Go!". It'll work

I tried this after their 1.0 release and it crashed. Mileage varies from person to person

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Re:It’s Been Real, Android: Why I’m Retiring from Android by V-2 on Thursday October 13, 2016 @11:45AM (#12701513)
I believe you, but Android Studio has come a long way since.

I agree it was abysmal at first - when it didn't crash, every new update would break compatibility and your projects wouldn't build anymore etc.

Right now it's pretty decent, considering, although I'm not a fan of Gradle either.

By the way, even though it's a fork of IntelliJ Idea, it's ultimately shaped by Google which has sort of a tradition of realeasing alpha-stage software into the world. Remember first releases of Chrome? I do; they crashed like crazy and lacked basic functionality such as printing.

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