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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

Version control systems


Android Studio integrates some version control systems (VCS): GitHub, CVS, Git, Google Cloud, Mercurial, and Subversion. To enable version control integration, navigate to VCS | Enable Version Control Integration... and select the type of system. Now, some more options will be added to the VCS menu:

  • To update the entire project, navigate to VCS | Update Project...

  • To commit all the changes to the project, navigate to VCS | Commit Changes...

The first step is to do the checkout from the version control system. Navigate to VCS | Checkout from Version Control, click on the add icon, and type the repository URL or the repository configuration.

The version control actions can also be applied to individual files. Right-click on any file of the project and select the Subversion section. From the emerging menu, we can add the file to the repository, add it to the ignore list, browse the changes, revert the changes, or lock it.

A simpler way to control the file versions is using...