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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

Project settings


You can navigate to the two dialogs that contain project settings using File | Settings and File | Project Structure. Both are also available in the toolbar:

Select your project from the project view and navigate to the Settings menu in File. The left-hand-side panel of the Settings dialog displays the options structured in the following sections:

  • Appearance & Behavior: You can change the appearance and behavior of Android Studio such as font size, theme, updates, passwords, or scopes management.

  • Keymap: This manages the keyboard shortcuts.

  • Editor: This customizes the code editor by selecting colors, using templates or changing the encoding. The default encoding is UTF-8. You will learn more about the Editor settings in Chapter 4, Using the Code Editor.

  • Plugins: This manages the plugins. You can install and remove plugins, enable or disable them, or you can check their version.

  • Version Control: In this section, you can find settings related to version control; for example...