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AS3.01:

I would like to report a couple of annoying weaknesses in Android Studio, as compared to e.g. Netbeans or Eclipse. These may be related to Intellij, and if so, please redirect this report accordingly.

DISPLAY OF JAVA DOC
Several errors:

a. When displaying api methods popup (upon entering a ".") on a class with available api, the Documentation window will not update unless it is NOT pinned. This is severe because it prevents effective study of an api. When window is floating it kind of works, but the delay could be several seconds. I have defined 500ms.
b. However, even if AS is instructed to read the api documentation directly from local harddrive, it will still spend approx 10 seconds fetching the first document. It should work within the 500ms or so.
c. The positioning of the floating method api window and the Documentation window is very cumbersome. There is a tendency to put windows OVER the line containing the code! Please just take a look at Netbeans on how these two windows are always placed correctly, i.e. never on top of current code line. Also see how fast Netbeans is compared to AS.
d. I could find no feature in the AS settings to define use of JavaDoc on local machine. It should be default to start the search there and always use that version, then with second priority to search online. Why? Because the download manager downloads documents if you prefer and therefore these will always be correct. A new version is coming in automatically.
e. The deliberate user repositioning of the Documentation floating window should be accepted and become persistent. Now, the window is always repositioned to default position. (Deeply annoying).
f. If the documentation windows is pinned, but not docked, it should pop in and out when the cursor is hovering over e.g. a method. While it pops in, it never pops out again, but remains visible. Also deeply annoying.
g. The "balloon" window and the documentation windows are overlapping, thus competing for attention. These windows but be mutual aware of each other and obviously never overlap.

I can provide screenshots if any of this is unclear.

Hope you agree that a cleanup according to these remarks will improve efficiency for the user of AS. If you do not have Netbeans at disposal, please request screenshots from me for comparision.