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title: "Android Studio | Skills We Assign For | Azendo"
description: "Android Studio as an Android toolchain — profilers, emulator fidelity, build performance, and the Azendo roles assigned for it."
url: "https://azendo.co/skills/android-studio/"
---

[Skills](https://azendo.co/skills/) Mobile platforms and frameworks 

# Android Studio.

Android Studio is the official Android IDE, built on IntelliJ, bundling the build system, emulator, layout tooling, profilers and SDK management. It is where most Android-specific diagnosis actually happens.

## Where Android Studio fits on a long engagement.

The profilers are the part that distinguishes a specialist from someone who writes Android code. Memory, CPU and network profiling answer questions that reading the source cannot — which allocation is causing the collection pause, which call is blocking the main thread — and they are routinely unused by teams who then guess.

Emulator fidelity is the standing caveat. An emulator on a developer machine is faster than most real hardware in use, which means performance problems that affect actual users are invisible during development. Mid-range physical devices are not optional on a product with a broad installed base.

## What an assigned team does with Android Studio.

Build times are a recurring, compounding tax that nobody owns. A Gradle configuration that has grown untended turns a small change into a multi-minute wait, and the cost is paid by every person on the project every day.

Treating build performance as real work rather than a personal annoyance is the difference, and it is the kind of continuous improvement a standing assignment can hold. What that covers is set out in [how the monthly fee is built](https://azendo.co/pricing/).

## What we use Android Studio for.

* Diagnosing with data rather than guesses Memory and CPU profiling used to find the actual cause instead of the plausible one.
* Testing on hardware users actually have Mid-range physical devices in the loop, where emulator performance is misleading.
* Build times treated as a deliverable Gradle configuration maintained, so feedback stays fast as the project grows.

## How Android Studio capacity is assigned.

Android tooling work sits inside mobile capacity under [outsource software development services](https://azendo.co/services/software-development/).

## Roles we assign Android Studio for

* [Android Developer Mobile development](https://azendo.co/services/mobile-development/android-developer/)

## Service lines it sits in

* [Mobile development](https://azendo.co/services/mobile-development/)

Capacity is agreed as a committed monthly capacity across a discipline, not per skill.

## Related in mobile platforms and frameworks

* [SwiftUI — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/swiftui/)
* [UIKit — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/uikit/)
* [Jetpack Compose — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/jetpack-compose/)
* [Coroutines — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/coroutines/)
* [Flutter — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/flutter/)
* [React Native — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/react-native/)
* [Expo — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/expo/)
* [Ionic — skill we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/ionic/)

## Tell us what your roadmap needs Android Studio for.

A service delivery manager replies with the disciplines we would assign, the monthly capacity and what the first month looks like.

[All skills we assign for](https://azendo.co/skills/)