Aye so i got a new job, and its android. I thought "yeah sure, ive been a java dev my whole life, it will be easy".

And it is easy.

But its like a fleshed out java, with a trillion built in classes and xml (seroiusly, fuck xml), and also the studio eats away my ram.

Android is not Java period.

Just extend and implement all

Yeah, Android has quite a few differences you need to get used to. But I like the XML stuff, because contrary to shit like HTML and CSS it actually kinda does what you want.

And Android Studio...it was AMAZING in the beginning because it was blazingly fast and at the same time better than the Eclipse plugin.
Then something happened and now it's a huge bloated pile of crap while it barely has more features than the 0.1 Beta.

You say it's easy and here you are complaining

@deadlyRants, it's still better than Eclipse with all the plugins. And they use it, so it will keep being better than what Eclipse ever was.
Google devs always used IntellijIDEA for development of their libraries and apps, so they were oblivious to the real priority of some deffects on Eclipse+ADT. At least their engineers DO use Android Studio, so we won the dogfooding factor.
Problem is of course Google Developers don't have entry-level machines, so they never experience the memory issues we people who can't afford better have.