Newb rant: So you're telling me that I could've been accessing the freaking terminal right inside of Android Studio!?!? Thanks Udacity for once again stringing me on for freaking ever alt tabbing back and forth from Android Studio to the Terminal!!

I just noticed this in Android Studio myself the other day. I haven't used it in a while, so the other day I downloaded it. It has soo many more features and a new look since I've used it. It's insane how great it's got to be. I was digging around in buttons and menus and happened to find the terminal.

Come to think of it, integrated access to a shell terminal has always been a feature of every "real" IDE I've used. I just somehow also seem to have missed it in Android Studio.

@corscheid yeah it's so powerful, almost too many features. I also recently stumbled across the version control features integrated. You can commit and push without every leaving the program. Awesome.

@OutdatedPC that's how a real IDE should work. An "Integrated Development Environment" should be a program where a developer has all needed features needed for dev built-in. Editor with syntax highlighting, compiler, terminal, preview/emulator, and version control at least. Error/warning messages/suggestions, optimization suggestions, etc. are a popular plus.

My problem with Atom right now until I figure it out is, it has git diff built in nicely (it puts colored stripe on left margin of edited line- red for delete, orange-yellow for modified, green for newly added and in the lower corner a counter for +/- lines) but I seem not to be able to commit and push from it. Seems strange for crucial git features to not be easily accessible in an IDE developed by GitHub. Maybe it's in an extension package..

I don't like using the terminal in Android Studio. I actually like having stuff in separate windows and even when I could use the floating mode in Android Studio, I'd rather use a personalized terminal.