You can install either version out of Ultimate and Community. (I made that mistake that’s why warning you 😛). Be careful when installing, you have to select M1 installer, by default it installs for intel. This is the way! I immediately installed IntelliJ Idea Ultimate Edition. IntelliJ supports Android development (Woahhh…) IntelliJ is made by JetBrains (Umm okay.) Then I thought, Hold On!Īndroid Studio is made by JetBrains (Yeah So.) I tried finding some alternatives and searched on google.I didn’t want to go for the Canary build as it’s still not stable and I’ve experienced some bugs in the past. Although I was able to build my apps fast, the coding on this laptop was a real pain. And I went ahead with purchasing the 16gb variant. I thought how bad it could be, and the other perks in M1 were simply hard to ignore.

But my thoughts were destroyed shortly after I got to know that Android Studio is yet to be built for M1 chip. Better performance, excellent battery and what not. My immediate thought was Yeah! M1 should be the perfect purchase, yes. I was looking for an upgrade, and wanted a mac this time. Let alone changing branches or building APKs. So I installed an additional 16GB RAM and a 256 gigs SSD and it was a night and day difference, but still for bigger projects, it took around 3 – 4 minutes every time you run the app. When I tried running Android Studio, it SUCKED! (obviously). My previous laptop was an old school HP device with 4GB RAM and 1TB HDD (yeah you are free to laugh). Don’t get me wrong, Android Studio is an excellent software, but it can’t just run on any device like VS code. If you are an Android developer like me, you must have felt the pain of building Android apps on your laptop at some point of time.

Android studio on m1