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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

Available services


Google Play services let you easily add more features to attract users on a wide range of devices, while using well-known features powered by Google. Using these services, you can add new revenue sources, manage the distribution of the app, access statistics, learn about your application users' habits, and improve your application with easy-to-implement Google features such as Maps or Google's social network, Google+. Some of the services are explained as follows:

  • Google+: Using the Google+ Platform for Android, you can authenticate the user of your app. Once they are authenticated, you can also access their public profile and social graph, among other actions.

  • Google Analytics: By integrating this service, you can allow your app to send information to Google Analytics. It is a tool that collects the metrics of your app. Metrics can help you to learn how users use your app by tracking events, like the number of taps on a button or by tracking the visualization of screens...