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Good IDE/code editor for developing Android apps with Kotlin? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 day ago by sbeak@sopuli.xyz to c/programming@programming.dev

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Hi all, much of what I have read recommends Android Studio to create Android apps, but I'm a bit wary since it's developed by Google. Are there any other good alternatives that are ideally open-source?

I am currently running Fedora 43 KDE, and I use VSCodium as my main code editor, mostly Python at the moment. Are there any plugins I could use to enable Kotlin support/specific Android dev stuff in VSCodium?

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[–] entwine@programming.dev 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nit picking: why use VSCodium? It's better to use Eclipse Theia instead, which is built from scratch and runs its own extension repository.

...and for the old timers: NO! Eclipse Theia is NOT the Eclipse you're thinking of

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

After a quick search, Eclipse "Theia" has a whole load of AI marketing and is the alternative to "GitHub CoPilot, Cursor, etc". No thanks.

[–] entwine@programming.dev 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

That's just AI marketing bandwagon crap, probably fishing for funding. The editor has been around for a few years, and it had nothing to do with AI until very recently.

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 hours ago

mmm ok

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's what I'm used to and it's got a good selection of extensions that are useful to me.

[–] entwine@programming.dev 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

VS Codium uses open vsx, which is the extension registry built and run by the Eclipse team. Whatever extensions you're using will also work on Theia.

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 hours ago

oh, that's pretty cool actually :0