Android Studio 4.2
How does the Android Studio compares with Xcode?<p>On Xcode, it comes with SwiftUI and UIKit libraries for interface building. Does Android Studio comes with a standart UI library? Does it support design tools to help you with building the IU through these libraries or is it code-first?<p>How straightforward is the environment setup? On Xcode, building your first app is as complicated as creating your first CV on Microsoft Word. i.e, click new, choose a template and build from there or deep dive from scratch if you know what you are doing. Click run and in runs in the simulator, if you put your developer account you can run it on the real iDevice. Pretty hassle-free. Did Android Studio achieve similar level of hassle-free development?<p>Xcode comes with some asset management tools where you can build libraries of images, colours etc. that will automatically adapt to things like device color theme, language or size(In your code, you refer to a resource in the asset manager and the correct asset is used depending to the parameters you set there). What is the situation with Android Studio?<p>On Xcode, the default language is Swift and comes with all kind of other libraries that are targeting the latest iOS&#x2F;MacOS releases. What is the state of art for Android development in therms of the language and OS support? Is everyone building on the native libraries that Google provides using Kotlin?<p>iDevice simulators run with acceptable performance even on 5 years old Macbook Air. Last time I tried a to run the &quot;hello world&quot; app through Android Studio many years ago on the simulator, the performance was miserable. Is the performance at acceptable levels now?<p>Thanks!