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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

Navigating code


The most direct way of navigating to declarations or type declarations is pressing Ctrl (Cmd on OS X) and clicking on the method name when it is displayed as a link. This option is also accessible from the Navigate | Declaration menu or pressing Ctrl + B (Cmd + B on OS X).

We can navigate through the hierarchy of methods from the left edge of the editor. Next to the method declarations that belong to a hierarchy of methods, there is an icon that indicates whether a method is implementing an interface method, implementing an abstract class method, overriding a superclass method, or getting implemented or overridden by other descendants. Click on these icons to navigate to the methods in the hierarchy. This option is also available via Navigate | Super Method or Navigate | Implementation(s). You can test it in the main activity of our first project (MainActivity.java), as shown in the following screenshot:

On the left edge of the editor, you can find another type of navigation...