It is like people have never heard of or seen Intellij. The android plugin supplied by jetbrains has worked well for my android dev. With Google directly involved it should only get better.

Great point. I agree, and I hope that collaboration between Google and third-party developers will only increase what IntelliJ and now Studio is capable of.

The folks at JetBrains must be a little annoyed at all the iOS devs who say that now that there's a decent tool for developing Android apps they'll give it a try. Android Studio looks to be more or less IntelliJ, which I've been using to develop Android apps professionally for the past year or so.

And as soon as AppCode, JetBrain's ObjC IDE, became stable enough to use all the time, I ran from the wretchedness that is Xcode.