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copied!<p>The only benefit for me: You code as fast as formula 1 :). Really. If you're used to Resharper in .NET programming, then you will code as fast as in .NET. Even faster.</p> <p>Bad thing: lack of some Eclipse's tools (browse <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user:437039%20%5Bintellij-idea%5D">my questions</a> for details) and it <strong>seems</strong> that Eclipse's compiler--which you can use from IntelliJ as well--is better. Because of the lack of some tools you are forced to use many 3rd party tools.</p> <p>The bottom line is: if you don't have problems with Eclipse, then stick to it. I hated Eclipse's slowness and that's why I moved to IntelliJ. </p> <p><strong>EDIT 23 Jan 2013</strong></p> <p>IntelliJ has improved <strong>a lot</strong>. They now have UI visual editor, a great connection to Android SDK and at this moment I can't really think of any feature which Eclipse has and IDEA does not have. What's better, I will say again that IDEA has more features than Eclipse. </p> <p><strong>EDIT 11 Mar 2014</strong></p> <p>Again IntelliJ improved. With its visual UI editor for XML layouts and itself being used as the base for Google's Android Studio, its still the best IDE around. </p> <p>The only flaws for Android developer are IMHO:</p> <ul> <li><p>it still does not perfectly import dependencies (libraries) so you have to fix things manually</p></li> <li><p>it does not perfectly recognizes other projects (modules) which sometimes you have to add those modules manually</p></li> <li><p>a support for Google Glass does not exist</p></li> </ul> <p>All this is referring to when importing projects made in Eclipse, which happens very often to anyone working on multiple Android projects. </p>

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