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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

The project navigation panel


Initially, no project or file is displayed in the main view of Android Studio, as you can see in the next screenshot. As Android Studio suggests, press Alt +1, or cmd 1 if you are using a Mac, to open the project view. You can also open it by clicking on the Project button on the left edge of the screen:

The Project view shows the list of the open projects. These projects are displayed in a hierarchical view. We can change the type of view from the upper-left corner of the project explorer. In the upper-right corner of the Project view, there are some actions and a drop-down menu to configure the selected type of the Project view. These actions are highlighted in the following screenshot:

Open the view selector from the upper-left corner to see the complete list of view types that you can select, which the following screenshot shows:

These are the available types of view to navigate through your project:

  • Project: This view shows the directory structure of the project...