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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

Adding components


Our main layout is a relative layout and contains a text view saying Hello World!. Now let's add a new component. The easiest way to do this is using the graphical editor, so open the Design tab. Select a component and drag it into the layout preview; for example, navigate to the Person Name component in Text Fields and place it below the text view.

Since our root layout is a relative layout, as you drag the element in the layout, some line guides are displayed. The properties related to the position are also shown in the top part of the Preview as you try to drag and drop the element in the layout. These lines and suggested properties, which are shown in the following screenshot, can help you properly align the element in your screen. They also help you to set the element position relative to the rest of the elements that are already in the layout.

The properties suggested in the Preview panel from the previous screenshot align the text field to the left of the parent element...