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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

Summary


We saw how projects are presented in Android Studio and which folders they contain by default when created. We explored the reasons for having those folders and examined the AndroidManifest.xml file and its purpose. We also went through the project settings in the Preferences and Project Structure dialogs. By now, you should know how to manipulate and navigate through a project in Android Studio.

In the next chapter, we will discuss how to use the text editor. Proper knowledge of the text editor is important in order to improve our programming efficiency. You will learn about the editor settings and how to autocomplete code, use pregenerated blocks of code, and navigate through the code. You will also learn about some useful shortcuts.