Android development environment on OSX

[GeX]

Hi all.

I'm looking to sort out my Android development environment on my MacBook Pro. I have developed Android apps in the past but have done so on my (now retired) Windows 7 machine using the usual Eclipse + ADT toolset. I found Eclipse functional, if not a little clunky at times.

I've begun looking into other IDEs, and saw IntelliJ IDEA linked from the Android developer pages.

Has anyone used it? Is it any better / worse / any reason to use it over Eclipse? I guess an advantage that Eclipse has is that that is what we'll be using shortly at work for Android dev - but if IntelliJ IDEA has improvements that are worth using, then I really don't mind using two differing development environments.

Failing that, any other suggestions?

 

[GeX]

I believe you can use the free IntelliJ version for Android dev

You can indeed.

Thanks for the replies guys.

In the end, I setup Eclipse just to get an old project built - but I'll install IntelliJ tonight as well and get a feel for it. All the feedback I've seen suggests the same as you've said here. It's just 'better'.