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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

Code Completion


Code Completion helps us write code quickly by automatically completing the code using dynamic suggestion lists that are generated based on what we just typed.

The basic code completion is the list of suggestions that appears while we are typing, as shown in the following screenshot. If the list is not displayed, press Ctrl and the Spacebar to open it:

Keep typing, select a command from the list, and press Enter or double-click to add it to your code. If the code you are writing is an expression and you want to insert the expression in its negated form, then select the expression from the suggestion list, and instead of pressing Enter or double-clicking it, press the exclamation mark key (!). The expression will be added with negation.

Another utility of code completion is the completion of statements. Type a statement, press Ctrl + Shift + Enter (Cmd + Shift + Enter on OS X), and notice how the closing punctuation is automatically added. If you press these keys after typing...