While we have been using NetBeans for most of our work so far, we will again use Android Studio for this piece of the project. While there is some semblance of Android support for NetBeans, as of this writing, the project seems to have stalled. Android Studio, on the other hand, is very actively developed by Google and is, in fact, the official IDE for Android development. I will leave it as an exercise for the reader, if needed, to install the IDE and the SDK.
To create a new project, we click on File | New Project, and specify Application name, Company domain, and Project location, as shown in the following screenshot:
Next, we need to specify the API version we want to target. This can be a tricky choice. On the one hand, we'd like to be on the cutting edge and have all of the great new features that Android offers available to us, but on the other hand, we don't want to target such a new API level that we make the application unusable (read uninstallable) for...