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Android Studio 2 Essentials - Second Edition

By : Belén Cruz Zapata
Book Image

Android Studio 2 Essentials - Second Edition

By: Belén Cruz Zapata

Overview of this book

Android Studio 2, the official IDE for Android application development, dramatically improves your workflow by letting you quickly see changes running on your device or emulator. It gives developers a unique platform by making app builds and deployment faster. This book will get you up and running with all the essential features of Android Studio 2 to optimize your development workflow. Starting off with the basic installation and configuration of Android Studio 2, this book will help you build a new project by showing you how to create a custom launcher icon and guiding you to choose your project. You will then gain an insight into the additional tools provided in Android Studio, namely the Software Development Kit (SDK) Manager, Android Virtual Device (AVD) Manager, and Javadoc. You’ll also see how to integrate Google Play Services in an Android project. Finally, you’ll become familiar with the Help section in Android Studio, which will enable you to search for support you might require in different scenarios.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Android Studio 2 Essentials Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The project structure


We can examine the project structure in the project navigation pane using the Project view type. The project structure includes a folder with the name of our application. This folder contains the application structure and files. The most important elements of the application structure are in the app directory. These include the following:

  • build/: This is a folder that contains the resources compiled after building the application and the classes generated by the Android tools, such as the R.java file that contains the references to the application resources.

  • libs/: This is a folder that contains the libraries referenced from our code.

  • src/androidTest/: This is a folder that contains the test classes of the Java classes that need to be tested.

  • src/main/: This is a folder that contains the sources of our application. All the files you will usually work with are in this folder. The main folder is subdivided as follows:

    • java/: This is a folder that contains the Java classes...