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F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.
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Android Studio is proprietary
Imo that's fine. It's also still the best tool for learning since it's the most widely supported one, and contains the greatest amount of documentation for working with android development. It costs nothing to use, and doesn't lock you into any kind of ecosystem you can't later migrate from.
Does that mean there is a free alternative?
Vscodium
And vscode.
That's not Foss though
OP never asked for FOSS.
True, but this is F-droid. Not to mention there little reason to use vscode over vscodium.
You can use IntelliJ Community to develop Android apps with an Android plugin.
Android Studio is still free, while proprietary. And Intellij community is also proprietary, pretty much the same thing?
IntelliJ has source available here under Apache-2 license. AFAIK only Pro edition is proprietary.
Android Studio has no source but there is one for Android IntelliJ plugin here.
Maybe I'm missing something but to me these cases are pretty different.
Oh wow, i didn't know they opened those sources, that is nice.
Command line tools plus fancy editor
Time to develop one, perhaps?