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Android Studio 2 Essentials - Second Edition

By : Belén Cruz Zapata
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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


By the end of this chapter, you should have learned some useful tricks and tips to make the most of the code editor. You know now how to use code completion, code generation, and some useful shortcuts for speeding up different actions. We also customized our code editor and are now ready to start programming.

In the next chapter, we will start creating our first user interface using layouts. You will learn how to create a layout using the graphical wizard, as well as by editing the XML layout file using the text-based view. We will create our first application, a classic Hello World example, using the text view component. You will also learn how to prepare our application for multiple screen sizes and adapt them for different device orientations. Finally, you will learn about UI themes and how to handle events.

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Downloading the example code

Code Detailed steps to download the code bundle are mentioned in the Preface of this book. The code bundle for the book is also hosted on GitHub...