Lightweight and stable alternative to Android Studio

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I need to do an Android project, but I don’t want to use Android Studio because it is very slow and full of bugs on my computer. Which IDE or alternative framework I could use?

A basic requirement of the project is to be in Java.

java android android-studio

  • Friend, your computer is in trouble. Android Studio is quite stable and light. For example, much lighter than Visual Studio.

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If your project has to be done in Java, you have no choice. In theory, you could do in Eclipse, but get started an Android project in Eclipse today is a maintenance suicide, since the Android development in it is no longer officially supported (Eclipse was once the official IDE for Android, through the ADT plugin).

If it could be done using HTML5/Javascript/CSS, you would have several options, such as Intel XDK and the Visual Studio (using Xamarin).

I find it strange that Android Studio has many bugs on its machine. It is stable enough to be used by millions of people every day. As for it being heavy, it’s probably lack of memory in your computer. Working on it with less than 6 GB of RAM is asking to suffer, especially if your OS is Windows or if you plan to use emulator.

  • Yes, I have only 4gb, but thanks anyway, I’ve seen that I have no escape, will be suffering even kk,

  • 6GB on a mac or linux gives the same "suffering"...

  • @Danielomine On Mac I don’t know, but on Ubuntu 16.10, 6 GB can work, yes. The suffering will come at the time of having run in emulator, hence recommend 8 GB (is what I have and recommend). If you are going to have to run only on physical devices, 6 GB on Ubuntu has always given it to me. That, of course, using Firefox. I imagine using Chrome the thing should get more complicated.

  • Voce can also type everything on the arm and compile using ant and keytool and jarsign to prepare apk for publication, so any text editor is much lighter than any of these IDE, riririri

  • His Afghan heel is the emulator. The IDE is fast and practical, I believe there are emulator sticking solutions, like Geny Motion and Andy Android Emulator, so there goes, the only thing that changes is the support of the android versions, which in the official android studio does not have so much problem, IE, is a "take it, give it here".

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