Pictogram toolbars are an idiotic invention, but you can get rid of them easily. Android Studio is highly customizable.<p>It&#x27;s not perfectly stable, but out of my experience (a bit dated now I admit) neither was Visual Studio. Eg. its infamous XAML designer is still haunting me in my dreams.<p>As far as bread and butter of an IDE goes, meaning navigation, refactoring etc. JetBrains&#x27; software, along with its derivatives (Android Studio is a fork), is superior to VS imho.<p>Then again it&#x27;s a bit of apples vs. oranges here, VS is more heavy-weight and powerful, with its SQL integration and many many other features.