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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

Android Device Monitor


The DDMS is a more advanced debugging tool available in the SDK. The DDMS can be accessed from Android Studio through the Android Device Monitor tool. This tool is able to monitor both a real device and the emulator.

To open the DDMS perspective, navigate to Tools | Android | Android Device Monitor. You can also click on the Android Device Monitor icon from the toolbar. A new window will be opened with the DDMS perspective.

In the left part of the window, the list of connected devices is shown. Currently, just our virtual device is listed. In the Devices section, the list of the processes running on each device is also presented. We should be able to locate our application in the processes of the device we launched before. From the toolbar of the Devices section, we can stop a process using the Stop sign icon. We can also take a screen capture of the virtual device by clicking on the Camera icon. Some of the other options will be explained later.

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