Android Studio vs CodeMirror

Overview

Android Studio

Stacks25.5K

Followers20.3K

Votes361

CodeMirror

Stacks747

Followers232

Votes15

Android Studio vs CodeMirror: What are the differences?

Android Studio: Android development environment based on IntelliJ IDEA. Android Studio is a new Android development environment based on IntelliJ IDEA. It provides new features and improvements over Eclipse ADT and will be the official Android IDE once it's ready; CodeMirror: In-browser code editor used in the dev tools for both Firefox and Chrome, Light Table, Adobe Brackets, Bitbucket, and many other projects. CodeMirror is a JavaScript component that provides a code editor in the browser. When a mode is available for the language you are coding in, it will color your code, and optionally help with indentation.

Android Studio belongs to "Integrated Development Environment" category of the tech stack, while CodeMirror can be primarily classified under "Text Editor".

Some of the features offered by Android Studio are:

Flexible Gradle-based build system.
Build variants and multiple APK generation.
Expanded template support for Google Services and various device types.

On the other hand, CodeMirror provides the following key features:

Support for over 60 languages out of the box
A powerful, composable language mode system
Autocompletion (XML)

"Android studio is a great tool, getting better and bet " is the top reason why over 164 developers like Android Studio, while over 3 developers mention "Integrable in your application" as the leading cause for choosing CodeMirror.

CodeMirror is an open source tool with 18K GitHub stars and 3.92K GitHub forks. Here's a link to CodeMirror's open source repository on GitHub.

Google, Lyft, and 9GAG are some of the popular companies that use Android Studio, whereas CodeMirror is used by Treehouse, Blackfire.io, and Jumplead. Android Studio has a broader approval, being mentioned in 928 company stacks & 690 developers stacks; compared to CodeMirror, which is listed in 24 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.

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Advice on Android Studio, CodeMirror

William

Sep 10, 2019

Needs advice

The problem I have is whether to choose Android Studio or Visual Studio? I have to develop a simple app for a school project that can work on both iPhone and Android.

The most important factors for me are Android and iOS compatibility. Although note that i would like to become a Software Engineer when i finish my course. (I'd like to work for Apple, just saying!)

After that id like easy integration for Google Ads and such if i do develop another app that people actually use to support development. (I'd also like to stick with one easy programming language that's compatible with a wide variety of platforms since i'm a beginner and have only ever used Pascal)

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Detailed Comparison

Android Studio	CodeMirror
Android Studio is a new Android development environment based on IntelliJ IDEA. It provides new features and improvements over Eclipse ADT and will be the official Android IDE once it's ready.	CodeMirror is a JavaScript component that provides a code editor in the browser. When a mode is available for the language you are coding in, it will color your code, and optionally help with indentation.
Flexible Gradle-based build system.;Build variants and multiple APK generation.;Expanded template support for Google Services and various device types.;Rich layout editor with support for theme editing.;Lint tools to catch performance, usability, version compatibility, and other problems.;ProGuard and app-signing capabilities.;Built-in support for Google Cloud Platform, making it easy to integrate Google Cloud Messaging and App Engine.	Support for over 60 languages out of the box;A powerful, composable language mode system;Autocompletion (XML);Code folding;Configurable keybindings;Vim, Emacs, and Sublime Text bindings;Search and replace interface;Bracket and tag matching;Support for split views;Linter integration;Mixing font sizes and styles;Various themes;Able to resize to fit content;Inline and block widgets;Programmable gutters;Making ranges of text styled, read-only, or atomic;Bi-directional text support
Statistics
Stacks 25.5K	Stacks 747
Followers 20.3K	Followers 232
Votes 361	Votes 15
Pros & Cons
Pros 176 Android studio is a great tool, getting better and bet 103 Google's official android ide 37 Intelligent code editor with lots of auto-completion 25 Its powerful and robust 5 Easy creating android app Cons 4 Slow emulator 4 Huge memory usage 2 Using Intellij IDEA, while Intellij IDEA have too 2 Complex for begginers 2 No checking incompatibilities	Pros 6 Integrable in your application 4 Better content manipulation methods 3 Easy Custom Mode 1 JavaScript based 1 Easy setup
Integrations
Android SDK	Google Chrome Sublime Text Opera Browser Safari Vim Emacs Firefox

What are some alternatives to Android Studio, CodeMirror?

Sublime Text

Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses. Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform.

Atom

At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it.

Vim

Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.

Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.

PhpStorm

PhpStorm is a PHP IDE which keeps up with latest PHP & web languages trends, integrates a variety of modern tools, and brings even more extensibility with support for major PHP frameworks.

IntelliJ IDEA

Out of the box, IntelliJ IDEA provides a comprehensive feature set including tools and integrations with the most important modern technologies and frameworks for enterprise and web development with Java, Scala, Groovy and other languages.

Visual Studio

Visual Studio is a suite of component-based software development tools and other technologies for building powerful, high-performance applications.

WebStorm

WebStorm is a lightweight and intelligent IDE for front-end development and server-side JavaScript.

NetBeans IDE

NetBeans IDE is FREE, open source, and has a worldwide community of users and developers.

PyCharm

PyCharm’s smart code editor provides first-class support for Python, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, CSS, popular template languages and more. Take advantage of language-aware code completion, error detection, and on-the-fly code fixes!

Related Comparisons

Some of the features offered by Android Studio are:

Flexible Gradle-based build system.
Build variants and multiple APK generation.
Expanded template support for Google Services and various device types.

On the other hand, CodeMirror provides the following key features:

Support for over 60 languages out of the box
A powerful, composable language mode system
Autocompletion (XML)

CodeMirror is an open source tool with 18K GitHub stars and 3.92K GitHub forks. Here's a link to CodeMirror's open source repository on GitHub.

Android Studio vs CodeMirror