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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

Creating a new project


To create a new project, click on the Start a new Android Studio project option from the welcome screen. If you are not in the welcome screen, then navigate to File | New Project. This opens the New Project wizard, as shown in the following screenshot:

Configuring the project

The fields that will be shown on the New Project wizard are as follows:

  • Application name: This is the name shown in Google Play and the name that users see.

  • Company Domain: This is the company or domain name that is used to create the package name of your application.

  • Package name: This is the unique identifier of your application, usually in the com.company_name.app_name or reverse_company_domain.app_name form. This form reduces the risk of name conflicts with other applications. A default package name is proposed, based on the Company Domain and Application name fields. You can change the package name by clicking on Edit.

  • Project location: This is the directory in your system in which the project...