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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

Getting help from Android Studio


Android Studio documentation is available in the Android developer website at https://developer.android.com/studio. Android Studio documentation is also included in the IntelliJ IDEA web help. This documentation is accessible from Android Studio in the menu Help | Online Documentation, or at http://tools.android.com/welcome-to-android-studio.

You can navigate to Help | Help Topics to directly open the documentation contents tree, or at http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/webhelp/intellij-idea.html. There are also some online video tutorials available at http://tv.jetbrains.net/.

To quickly find actions of Android Studio, we can use the Help | Find Action option. Type the action you are looking for and the list of matching actions will be displayed. You can change some preferences values directly from the list dialog, or you can click to navigate to them. The following screenshot shows the Find Action functionality.

Android Studio provides the tip of the day functionality. The tip of the day explains in a dialog a trick about Android Studio. Every time you open Android Studio, this dialog is shown. We can navigate through more tips using the Previous Tip and Next Tip buttons. By deselecting the Show Tips on Startup checkbox, we can disable this functionality. The tip dialog can be opened by navigating to Help | Tip of the Day. The next screen show is an example of a tip of the day screen.