Studio Otter — Android

Android Studio has historically been criticized for sluggishness. Otter made tangible progress:

Android Studio Otter (hypothetically versioned around the 2022.1.1 Canary releases, colloquially named after the aquatic mammal) represented a pivot point. It arrived at a time when the Android ecosystem was suffering from a crisis of complexity. Kotlin was king, Jetpack Compose was the new crown prince, and the old XML layouts were gathering dust in the attic. Developers were drowning in build times and Gradle sync errors. They needed a vessel that was buoyant, agile, and resilient. android studio otter

First, a quick note on naming. Google aligned Android Studio’s versioning with IntelliJ IDEA (the platform underneath). Otter (2021.3.1) is based on . and resilient. First