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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

Chapter 2. Starting a Project

Now that you have installed Android Studio, the next thing to do is to get familiar with its features. You need to understand the necessary fields and form factors when creating a project. Also, you may need to choose the activity type to create the main activity. How can you achieve this using Android Studio?

In this chapter, we will discuss how to create a new project with the basic content that is needed to start out. We will use the Android Studio wizard to create the project and go through the project configuration fields. We will also select one of the different kinds of activities available in the wizard as our main activity.

These are the topics we'll be covering in this chapter:

  • Creating a new project

  • Selecting the parameters

  • Choosing your main activity from different types of activities

  • Customizing your main activity