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I'm currently developing an app using Eclipse + ADT Plugin and I want to start using Android Studio. I don't mind dealing with a few bugs and similar problems; I have already tried it and it seems fine. But as far as the license concern, may I use it for a production application?
I already saw this post: Is Android Studio ready for production? But the answer there says it's not ready because it lacks features and it's still in alpha. I don't mind using an "unfinished product", but want to ensure that I'm not going to violate the license agreement.
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Yes to both. Android Studio is designed to be used (with no fee) to develop apps that you'll be selling.
Android is an open platform that's freely available to you as an app developer. You can immediately download the Android SDK, develop apps, and distribute them to the world without any registration or fees.
SDK License from Google3.1 Subject to the terms of the License Agreement, Google grants you a limited, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable, non-exclusive, and non-sublicensable license to use the SDK solely to develop applications for compatible implementations of Android.
The majority of the Android platform and documentation is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. While the project strives to adhere to the preferred license, there may be exceptions, such as for documentation (code comments) extracted from a source code module that is licensed under GPLv2 or other license.
IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition is completely free and open-source, licensed under the Apache 2 license and can be used for any kind of development. Android Studio has the same licensing terms. http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2013/05/intellij-idea-and-android-studio-faq/#comment-4939
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