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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 3. Navigating a Project

Now that you have created your first Android Studio project, you will understand what is going on. Before you start programming, you need to familiarize yourself with the navigation in the project. How is everything structured? Which settings can you change in the project? How can you change these settings and what do they mean?

This chapter is designed to introduce the structure of a project in Android Studio. We will start by understanding the project navigation panel. Then, we will go through the most important folders in our project—build, gen, and libs—and the folders under src/main, and you will learn how to change the project settings.

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

  • The navigation panel

  • The project structure

  • Changing project properties