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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

Tasks and contexts


Android Studio integrates several issue tracking systems. An issue tracking system is a software tool that manages lists of issues. Some issue tracking systems supported by Android Studio are the following: Jira, YouTrack, Lighthouse, Mantis, Trello, or Bugzilla.

To integrate one of these tracking systems into your project using Android Studio, navigate to Tools | Tasks & Contexts | Configure Servers.... Click on the Add button and select one of the available systems. You need to enter the server URL, the authentication values, and some additional parameters depending on the system type.

From the Tasks & Contexts menu you will find the actions to manage the tasks, such as switching among tasks, creating a new task, closing the current task, or editing the current task.

A task is identified by its name and is usually attached to an issue in your issue tracking system. A task can also be associated with a context, which defines a set of files that will be opened in...