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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


In this chapter, we saw how to create and edit the user interface layouts using both the graphical and the text-based editors. We finished our first small application, and we upgraded it with some basic components. You should now be able to create a simple layout and test it with different styles, screen sizes, and screen resolutions. You also learned about the different available UI themes. Finally, you learned about events and learned how to handle them using listeners.

In the next chapter, you will learn about some useful tools available in the Android Studio. We will use the SDK Manager frequently to install different packages. You will also learn about the AVD Manager for different virtual devices to test your applications on. We will generate Javadoc documentation for our project using the Javadoc utility, and you will learn about the version control systems available in Android Studio.