Android Studio vs. Zeplin

Android Studio

Android Studio

99 Reviews and Ratings

Zeplin

Zeplin

66 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Android Studio	Score 9.3 out of 10	N/A	Android Studio is an official Android development integrated development environment (IDE) for mobile application development in the Android operating system developed by Google. Android Studio is based on Jetbrains'	N/A
Zeplin	Score 7.6 out of 10	N/A	Zeplin, from the company of the same name, is a platform supporting collaboration in application development by engineers and designers by providing an API with popular collaboration, development and prototyping tools and creating a space where productions can be shared and reviewed.	$0 up to 1 project

Pricing

Android Studio

Zeplin

Editions & Modules

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Free: $0
up to 1 project
Advanced: $15
per month per seat (up to 50 projects)
Basic: $15
per month per project
Enterprise: Contact sales team

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Android Studio	Zeplin
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Android Studio	Zeplin
Considered Both Products	Android Studio Pankaj Choudhary Freelancer Android Developer Chose Android Studio Visual Studio supports androud development through DOT NET only. Eclipse is very slow in case of large project, and also lack in supprots. IntelliJ IDEA supports Android development with JAVA as well as Kotlin, but it also supports the development of other languages, so it's … Incentivized Helpful? Yaqoob Najar Manager Chose Android Studio For pure android work, nothing beats Android Studio. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Android Studio Microsoft VSC is a great product that can be adapted for Android development, but it requires significantly more effort than using Android Studio. Incentivized Helpful? Jose Perri Director of Engineering and Product Development Chose Android Studio Although there are alternatives on the market that propose creating ANDROID and IOS APPs in a single interface at the same time, in our case the experience was not positive since we had to access very specific functionalities. There was no other solution than to develop the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Android Studio I initially did code in Eclipse to develop an android app that is generally used for web apps and then I moved into Android Studio. That's the biggest thing I ever did I think. Android Studio has lots more functionalities and plugins than any other product. Now I am completely … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Android Studio I am primarily a Java developer so many of the IDEs I have used are specifically made for Java development. I have used IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, and Netbeans for Java development but Android Studio is far better for Android development specifically and it also has support for … Incentivized Helpful? PC Peter Chapman Senior System Architect Chose Android Studio Android Studio is as good for Android development, as Visual Studio has been for Windows development. It is my first choice for Android development because it includes an excellent suite of tools and support for Android. Its built in refactoring and code fixes are much more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Android Studio Android Studio is the best possible offering to make android based apps. It's a product by Google and the official integrated development environment for android app development. That's why it is able to offer the easiest to learn and simplest coding environment to developers. … Incentivized Helpful? TK Tom Kunz Owner Chose Android Studio We personally did not try too many others because the staff who we hired to take on mobile development were already familiar with it and were able to get going quickly with it. They and all their peers had already worked through others and we were content to trust their … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Android Studio We use Android Studio for Android app development because it is the most efficient and official Integrated development environment for Android. Incentivized Helpful? Mary Paula Software Engineer Chose Android Studio Eclipse Incentivized Helpful? KV Kunal Verma Software Engineer Intern Chose Android Studio Android application development can also be done using the IntelliJ IDE. It is a very good IDE but it is paid for professional and commercial product development. However, IntelliJ IDE is available with a student license for limited application development features. Thus … Incentivized Helpful? TW Tharanga Wickramsinghe Software Engineer Chose Android Studio Debugging and testing are easy in Android Studio. The errors of the codes can be found easily in Android Studio. It has superior community support. Incentivized Helpful? BB Barry Burd Professor Chose Android Studio Eclipse used to be the official IDE for Android. Since Android Studio is now the official IDE, and since Eclipse is no longer supported for Android, I have no choice but to use Android Studio. Of course, Android Studio has more features than Eclipse had because (1) Android is … Incentivized Helpful? Chiyars Malhotra Android Developer Chose Android Studio Basically Eclipse is a tool where you have to do all on your own from start to end. Android Studio is using its Artificial Intelligence techniques to enhance our coding experience and offer better , suggestions to create methods, variables, classes, etc. Incentivized Helpful?	Zeplin Verified User Anonymous Chose Zeplin Zeplin is used for us purely as a handoff tool. It keeps it clean and clear for devs and product managers what is completed. It has some good labels and other organizing features. The different levels of access are also super helpful to give the correct people the view they … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zeplin As our project is large and there are many modules and they should be consistent. So, Zeplin's style guide can be shared globally across different projects and we can easily ensure consistency across all modules. Zeplin automatically exports assets in multiple file formats like … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zeplin Actually, we didn't select Zeplin. After a long time of internal discussions, the majority of the team decided that we want to move to Figma. We still use Zeplin as a legacy, but we don't use it for new features. In my opinion, it's less flexible than Figma, which allows … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zeplin We went without a tool like Zeplin for a long time, but as we grew we needed to get a better handle on the design process and handoff to engineering. We went straight to Zeplin off of numerous recommendations and didn't look back. We have had a great experience with Zeplin. Incentivized Helpful? Raphael Sanguinete Creative Director Chose Zeplin Zeplin is more focused on the handoff than in the creation itself. The other alternatives can do both, but Zeplin is an awesome tool for the handoff part. It depends in how big is your team and how the workflow is organized to understand whats the best tool for your team. Incentivized Helpful? Christopher Fritz Head of Global IT Chose Zeplin It was a business need from different departments. From an IT point of view, we have been a part of purchasing and setting up. However, the decision to go with Zeplin was not ours. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zeplin I believe Invision is the only one that is supporting such inspection tools at this moment. Incentivized Helpful? Ray Flores Software Engineer Chose Zeplin Zeplin has and easier on the eyes UI, not a cumbersome constructors of projects and easier collaboration. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zeplin Out of all of the products that I have used to support design-to-development handoffs, Zeplin is my favorite. It’s pretty lightweight and easy to use (once you get the hang of it). Zeplin also has a smooth interface and is, generally, clearer to use than other tools, such as … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zeplin These other tools are really helpful products for creating and sharing wireframes / prototypes. However, Zeplin is the best tool for the actual hand off between the design and development teams once the design is actually ready to share. Zeplin fills this gap and improves the … Incentivized Helpful? Prashant Mahajan Senior Product Manager Chose Zeplin Zeplin is simpler. Zeplin lacks prototyping on par with Invision. Zeplin doesn't give a direct code for Android and iOS like Figma does. Zeplin doesn't have a lot of advanced features like Invision, for example, whiteboard. But Zeplin is good for at its job which is to share … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zeplin Zeplin is a really nice lightweight app, that is easier to use than Invision for sharing purposes. Invision does primarily handle prototyping, which Zeplin does not do. Abstract is my product of choice but is also a slightly different tool — almost a Github for design. It … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zeplin We chose Zeplin because it allowed our product and design teams to collaborate more effectively, while providing the rest of the organization an easily accessible location to access up-to-date assets. While InVision's interface can be more intuitive, we prefer Zeplin because it … Incentivized Helpful? Ronald Melendez Desarrollador de software Chose Zeplin Marvel is a pretty expensive application for what it gives you, it is a pretty good tool but I think the handoff is not as good as Zeplin's. I think the style of Zeplin is more oriented to developers and Marvel is more oriented to the designers. I like the way Zeplin is … Incentivized Helpful? Carlos Eduardo de Souza Co-founder & Manager Chose Zeplin Zeplin is great to inspect and share user interfaces, specifications and assets, perfect for developers. Tools like Invision and Marvel are much better to create prototypes for both developers, coworkers and even stakeholders, but they don't have this kind of feature … Incentivized Helpful? Hernán Silva Senior Front-end developer Chose Zeplin For my company needs, Zeplin comes as the best tool in its category. Zeplin's competitors are great tools but they either offer way too many features or are priced above Zeplin with the same features. Zeplin is in the right spot for both pricing and features. Incentivized Helpful? Tariq Virani Product Manager Chose Zeplin Zeplin is a better tool for collaboration and has a deeper feature set that helps communicate the information developers need to build products. Incentivized Helpful? Brad Henderson Co-Founder/Chief Janitor Chose Zeplin I know there are other products out there but Zeplin has been so effective that I haven't even bothered to look elsewhere. The whole experience of Zeplin has been excellent. However, once Adobe XD is more built out Zeplin will finally have a formidable competitor as it will be … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zeplin Zeplin is much better when it comes to seeing the properties and CSS code of the design elements. Our developers love it when they get all that info from the Zeplin file. Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Gardner Co-Founder Chose Zeplin Zeplin is the only solution tailored for this common use case. Previously we just shared files in dropbox but that was messy and didn't allow for specific comments, etc. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Android Studio

Zeplin

Project Management

Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
	Android Studio - Ratings	Zeplin 4.6 Ratings 51% below category average
Task Management	00 Ratings	4.80 Ratings
Workflow Automation	00 Ratings	3.00 Ratings
Mobile Access	00 Ratings	4.20 Ratings
Search	00 Ratings	6.30 Ratings

Communication

Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
	Android Studio - Ratings	Zeplin 6.9 Ratings 15% below category average
Notifications	00 Ratings	6.90 Ratings

File Sharing & Management

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
	Android Studio - Ratings	Zeplin 4.9 Ratings 49% below category average
Versioning	00 Ratings	7.20 Ratings
Document collaboration	00 Ratings	3.30 Ratings
Access control	00 Ratings	4.30 Ratings
Advanced security features	00 Ratings	4.80 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Android Studio	Zeplin
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (0 ratings)	7.4 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.8 (0 ratings)	9.5 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Android Studio	Zeplin
Likelihood to Recommend	Android Studio is the only platform you should consider for Android development. I have found that nothing else comes close in terms of documentation or support. There is always the temptation to develop for Android using a cross platform toolkit, such as Xamarin, but unless your app is incredibly simple, you will find your self wrestling with the toolkit more than actually creating your product. If you have any Android projects still in Eclipse, you should upgrade these to Android Studio - the backwards compatibility for older versions of Android is very good, with issues only occurring with debugging on older (Lollipop or below) devices. The only scenario Android Studio is not suitable for is cross-platform development. There is no way to share code between iOS, macOS, or Windows projects with Android Studio, unless you are developing a game in C++. If you wish to develop cross platform mobile apps, I suggest Microsoft Visual Studio. Incentivized PC Peter Chapman Senior System Architect Read full review	I still have some issues, especially with color integration between the style guide and also project. When we update the colors, it's not automatically sync to every project. Aside from that, zeplin solves my problem for hand-off design from design to developer. I set zeplin is source of truth design file Incentivized D Hendrik Mulyana Lead Designer Read full review
Pros	It offers advanced code completion, and static analysis which speeds up coding and reduces errors. Gradle integration helps to easily generate different app versions from a single project without the need of coding for a separate project, for example, if I am supposed to create a two different versions, one meant for free users and other for paid users, Android Studio allows me to do so from a single project, which saves a lot of time. It provides real time information of CPU, mempry and network usage, which accordingly allows me to easily optimize the app. Powerful emulator with almost all the device stimulation for testing. Incentivized Yaqoob Najar Manager Read full review	Provides dimensions across iOS, Android and Web which saves developers from a lot of guess and check when implementing designs Allows for easy download of digital design assets for developers to easily organize and implement Great user experience in terms of the product itself and a great value for your money Automatically generates CSS for web designs which is AMAZING! Incentivized Brad Henderson Co-Founder/Chief Janitor Read full review
Cons	Debugging is not that great, it can show some specific details for a better understanding of the issue. It is a RAM eater tool, its hard to do multitask along with the android studio. Sometimes after updating the android studio, we have to face so many random issues with the SDK or codes. Incentivized LS Lokesh Singh Jr. App Developer Read full review	It would be better if it has a dedicated web application It's not the easiest tool to learn and start working with It would be awesome if it had more features turning it into an all-around tool for mockups and prototypes Incentivized Raphael Sanguinete Creative Director Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	Great tool Incentivized Hernán Silva Senior Front-end developer Read full review
Usability	Android Studio is very useful for developers to write the code of Android apps. It provides auto implementation, suggestions, and removes boilerplate codes, which helps developers write clear and optimized code. Number of third party and Jetbrains plugins available to improve the speed of development and help the developer. Incentivized Pankaj Choudhary Freelancer Android Developer Read full review	Zeplin's component management and style guide help us to be consistent across whole product and it so easy to use for non-technical person. It is now easy to collaboration for designes between different teams like stackholders, product owner, UI/UX, developers and testers. Now there is only one point of reference is Zeplin so it is so easy to get details without asking designer or developer again and again. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Overall support for Android Studio is quite good. As the project is maintained by Google itself, frequent updates are usually made to Android Studio to keep the IDE update and bug-free. Many community forums are also available to help developers across the world if they face any issue. Incentivized KV Kunal Verma Software Engineer Intern Read full review	Zeplin has classic support with a chat from the website. It's working fine, and we're also getting the support needed when needed. However, Zeplin is very good at closing the incidents and moving on. It was a while ago we had a case with their support so that it might have improved since then. Incentivized Christopher Fritz Head of Global IT Read full review
Alternatives Considered	I am primarily a Java developer so many of the IDEs I have used are specifically made for Java development. I have used IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, and NetBeans for Java development but Android Studio is far better for Android development specifically and it also has support for things like Flutter development. VS Code is quickly becoming popular across languages but Android Studio is still at the top in my opinion. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Out of all of the products that I have used to support design-to-development handoffs, Zeplin is my favorite. It’s pretty lightweight and easy to use (once you get the hang of it). Zeplin also has a smooth interface and is, generally, clearer to use than other tools, such as InVision. Plus, all of the plug-ins that you can use with Zeplin have supported the design-development relationship and workflows in which I’ve been involved in more efficient, clear, and effective ways than I’ve seen with any other product. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Due to Android Studio's day by day improvement, our company is making Android applications in more and more effective and efficient ways. 24x7 support from Google and JetBrains is making our work running 24x7 smoother, and making our clients happier and happier day by day. Due to the awesome animation and transition tricks, we are providing our clients more than they expected. Incentivized Chiyars Malhotra Android Developer Read full review	We're using the free plan, so it fits in our needs, although we're limited to create only one project at a time Sketch has some plugins that offers exactly what Zeplin does, for free The integration with design apps (Sketch, Photoshop, XD) and collaboration (Slack and Trello) helps our team to better communicate and be notified on every update Incentivized Carlos Eduardo de Souza Co-founder & Manager Read full review
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