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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

Code generation


To generate blocks of code in a class, navigate to Code | Generate or press the Alt + Insert shortcut (Cmd + N on OS X). A dialog like the following is displayed:

From the Generate menu, you can generate constructors, getters and setters methods, super method calls, or equals and toString methods. We can also override or delegate methods.

Another way of generating code is surrounding some of our code with statements (if, if/else, while, for, try/catch, and so on). Select a code line and navigate to Code | Surround With or press Ctrl + Alt + T (Cmd + Alt + T on OS X). The menu for the Surround With option is shown in the following screenshot:

The third option, which is also shown in the previous screenshot, is inserting a Live Template. You can surround your code with a Live Template using the Surround With option or you can navigate to Code | Surround with Live Templates or press Ctrl + Alt + J (Cmd + Alt + J on OS X).

Navigate to Code | Insert Live Templates or press Ctrl +...