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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


By the end of this chapter, you have the knowledge required to use the Android SDK Manager tool to install, update, or examine available platforms for your project. You can create a new AVD and edit it whenever necessary. Creating complete documentation for our project should no longer be a problem using Javadoc and we should also be able to work with a VCS integrated in Android Studio.

In the next chapter, you will learn about the available Google Play services and how to integrate them with your project using Android Studio. We will also see how to install and integrate different libraries available with Google technology, such as Google Maps, Google Cloud Messaging, and more.