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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

Code completion


Code completion helps us write code quickly by automatically completing the code using dynamic suggestion lists that are generated based on what we just typed.

The basic code completion is the list of suggestions that appears while we are typing, as shown in the following screenshot. If the list is not displayed, press Ctrl and the spacebar to open it.

Keep typing, select a command from the list, and press Enter or double-click to add it to your code. If the code you are writing is an expression and you want to insert the expression in its negated form, then select the expression from the suggestion list, and instead of pressing Enter or double-clicking it, press the exclamation mark key (!). The expression will be added with negation.

Another type of code completion is smart type code completion. If you are typing a command to call a method with a String parameter, then only the String objects will be suggested. This smart completion occurs in the right-hand side of an assignment...