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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

Getting help from Android Studio


Android Studio documentation is included in the IntelliJ IDEA web help. This documentation is accessible from Android Studio by navigating to Help | Online Documentation, or at http://tools.android.com/welcome-to-android-studio. Another option is to navigate to Help | Help Topics to directly open the documentation contents tree, or go to http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/webhelp/intellij-idea.html. There are also some online video tutorials available. Navigate to Help | JetBrains TV or refer to http://tv.jetbrains.net/.

To quickly find actions of Android Studio, we can navigate to Help | Find Action. Type the action you are looking for, and the list of matching actions will be displayed.

Android Studio provides a tip of the day functionality. The tip of the day explains, in a dialog, a trick about Android Studio. Every time you open Android Studio, this dialog is shown. We can navigate through more tips using the Previous Tip and Next Tip buttons. By deselecting the Show Tips on Startup checkbox, we can disable this functionality. The tip dialog can be opened by navigating to Help | Tip of the Day.