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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

Android Device Monitor


The Dalvik Debug Monitor Server (DDMS) is a more advanced debugging tool available in the SDK. The DDMS can be accessed from Android Studio through the Android Device Monitor tool. This tool is able to monitor both a real device and the emulator.

To open the DDMS perspective, navigate to Tools | Android | Android Device Monitor. You can also click on the Android Device Monitor icon from the toolbar. A new window will be opened with the DDMS perspective.

In the left part of the window, the list of connected devices is shown. Currently, just our virtual device is listed. In the Devices section, the list of the processes running on each device is also presented. We should be able to locate our application in the processes of the device we launched before. From the toolbar of the Devices section, we can stop a process using the Stop sign icon. We can also take a screen capture of the virtual device by clicking on the Camera icon. Some of the other options will be explained...