Android Studio - Android Studio Tutorial

Android Studio is the official integrated development environment (IDE) for Android platform development.

It was announced on May 16, 2013 at the Google I/O conference. Android Studio is freely available under the Apache License 2.0.

Android Studio was in early access preview stage starting from version 0.1 in May 2013, then entered beta stage starting from version 0.8 which was released in June 2014. The first stable build was released in December 2014, starting from version 1.0.

Based on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA software, Android Studio is designed specifically for Android development. It is available for download on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, and replaced Eclipse Android Development Tools (ADT) as Google's primary IDE for native Android application development.

Features

New features are expected to be rolled out with each release of Android Studio. The following features are provided in the current stable version:

• Gradle-based build support.
• Android-specific refactoring and quick fixes.
• Lint tools to catch performance, usability, version compatibility and other problems.
• ProGuard integration and app-signing capabilities.
• Template-based wizards to create common Android designs and components.
• A rich layout editor that allows users to drag-and-drop UI components, option to preview layouts on multiple screen configurations.
• Support for building Android Wear apps
• Built-in support for Google Cloud Platform, enabling integration with Google Cloud Messaging and App Engine.

System requirements

Version 2.x

Version 1.x

Android Studio vs. Eclipse ADT comparison

References

External links

• Official homepage at developer.android.com.
• Introduction at Google I/O 2013 video from YouTube
• Using Android Studio (up-to-date crowdsourcing guide)
• Official Eclipse Andmore project
• Android Studio Tutorial for beginners