"After two years of development, Google today released Android Studio 1.0, the first stable version of its Integrated Development Environment (IDE) aimed solely at Android developers. ..."
Not bad, they actually use Gradle at the backend to drive the builds <http://developer.android.com/tools/building/plugin-for-gradle.html>. This means you can customize the build process with additional scripts etc. And you are not actually tied to the IDE.
Never only rely on an IDE to build your system, you'd always want to have the option of automated builds. Also nice that they're using IntelliJ IDEA as basis rather than Eclipse (less bloat and sudden crap-outs). Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174