One of the big advantages of Android Things is that it relies on the excellent set of tools that Google has been building for Android over the years. Among those tools, Android Studio is probably the most impressive.

It is not only that you do not need to get used to a new IDE. Android Studio is already an excellent tool.

You have dependency management with gradle, multi-module and library projects, support for flavors, and so on. And that is just basic gradle. The IDE itself has excellent wizards, refactoring tools, search and autocompilation, profiling, and much more. Plus, do not forget Kotlin support.

Android Studio has come a long way since the early days of Android with Eclipse, and Android Things has all those tools at its disposal from day one.