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Android Studio Essentials

By : Belén Cruz Zapata
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Android Studio Essentials

By: Belén Cruz Zapata

Overview of this book

<p>Android Studio is an IDE that is based on the JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA. It gives developers a unique platform to develop and debug Android apps using various developer tools. It has a wide array of features such as live layout facility, Gradle build support, and template-based wizards, which makes it a preferred choice for developers.</p> <p>Starting off with the basic installation and configuration of Android Studio, this book aids you in building a new project by helping you to create a custom launcher icon and guiding you to choose your activity. You then gain an insight on the additional tools provided in Android Studio, namely the Software Development Kit (SDK) Manager, Android Virtual Device (AVD) Manager, and Javadoc.</p> <p>Finally, it helps you to familiarize yourself with the Help section in Android Studio that enables you to search for the help you might require in different scenarios.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Android Studio Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Customizing the editor settings


To open the editor settings, navigate to File | Settings. In the IDE Settings section of the left panel, select Editor. This displays the general settings of the editor in the right panel. We recommend checking two of the options that are unchecked by default:

  • Change font size (Zoom) with Ctrl+Mouse Wheel: Checking this option allows us to change the font size of the editor using the mouse wheel, as we do in other programs such as web browsers.

  • Show quick doc on mouse move: Checking this option enables the display of a brief document about the code in a small dialog when we move the mouse over a piece of code and wait for 500 milliseconds. When we move the mouse again, the dialog automatically disappears, but if we move the mouse into the dialog, then we can examine the document in detail. This is very useful to read what a method does and to identify its parameters without navigating to it. The following screenshot displays this functionality:

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