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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 4. Using the Code Editor

Now that you have created your first project and learned how to navigate through the different folders, subfolders, and files, it's time to start programming. Have you ever wanted to be able to program more efficiently? How can you speed up your development process? Do you want to learn useful shortcuts too? For example, how can you comment more than one line at once, find and replace strings, or move faster through different parameters in a method call?

In this chapter, you will learn how to use and customize the code editor in order to feel more comfortable when programming. It is worth knowing the basic features of the code editor in order to increase your productivity. You will learn about code completion and code generation. Finally, you will learn some useful shortcuts and hotkeys to speed up the development process.

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

  • Customizing the code editor

  • Code completion

  • Code generation

  • Finding related...