


Support for multiple languages and platforms.According to the PYPL Index, Visual Studio is the most popular IDE in the world, with a 22.44 percent share. It also supports Apache Cordova for those who prefer to write Android apps in HTML and JavaScript. For mobile development, Visual Studio integrates with Xamarin (which Microsoft purchased last year), enabling cross-platform native development in C#. It also has a separate open source code editor called Visual Studio Code.

Visual Studio comes in multiple versions: Enterprise for large teams, Professional for small teams, Visual Studio for Mac, and the free Community edition. Microsoft’s flagship IDE, Visual Studio, comes is not always a first thought for Android development however, in recent years that has changed, especially with the inclusion of Xamarin. See our complete list of Top Android Programming Integrated Development Environments.
