What are the advantages and disadvantages of developing or not with Android Studio?

Question

Using technologies like Xamarin, it is possible, with some changes, to develop the same application for several platforms having a great reuse of code. Already, with Android Studio, it is possible to develop applications exclusively for Android, which provides some exclusive features for this.

Talking about it with a friend, he told me, however, that some features are more precarious or even nonexistent using this type of technology (he also mentioned Ionic).

What features are lost? How impactful is this in my app? Is there any other downside?

Answer 1

When developing an application with these technologies you cited the main disadvantage is in relation to performance. As much as they are constantly evolving, there is always a layer more on android, which does not occur when developing the native application. Of course the native alone does not guarantee performance, a bad implementation done in the native may be slower than a well done in a hybrid for example.

Answer 2

A tool that also works like Xamarin, only using java, is the Totalcross and her advantage over Xamarin or Ionic is that it has no loss of performance, in some cases it has been gained is.