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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 editor settings


To open the editor settings, navigate to File | Settings. In the IDE Settings section of the left panel, select Editor. The Editor settings are distributed among several categories: General, Colors & Fonts, Code Style, Inspections, File and Code Templates, File Encodings, Live Templates, File Types, Copyright, Emmet, Images, Intentions, Language Injections, Spelling, and TODO.

We are explaining some of the most interesting ones in this section and in the next sections of this chapter.

General

Select General settings under the Editor settings. This displays the settings in the right-hand side panel. Some of the most interesting options are the following:

  • Mouse | Change font size (Zoom) with Ctrl + Mouse Wheel: Checking this option allows us to change the font size of the editor using the mouse wheel, as we do in other programs such as web browsers.

  • Other | Show quick documentation on mouse move: Checking this option enables the display of a quick document about...