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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

Customizing your activity


In the last step of the New Project wizard, you can customize a little bit of your activity. This customization is going to determine the names of some of your classes and resources files. You can also customize from this wizard the use of fragments or the navigation type.

The following screenshot shows the customization screen for an Empty Activity:

The basic customization for the activity has the following options:

  • Activity Name: Name of the main activity class.

  • Layout Name: You can create a layout for your activity if you check the Generate Layout File option. This field lets you specify the name of the layout associated with your main activity, which will be created in the resources folder.

Depending on the type of activity selected in the previous steps, you can customize more parameters. The following screenshot shows the customization of Basic Activity:

In addition to the activity and layout names, you can configure the following options:

  • Title: This will be...