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Android Studio 2 Essentials - Second Edition

By : Belén Cruz Zapata
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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

About the Reviewer

Antonio Hernández Niñirola is a European PhD candidate in software engineering, which is the last step of the doctorate program. He did his BSc in computer science, and has a masters degree from the University of Murcia in Spain.

He has been in San Francisco since May 2015, working as a part of the Android Development Team at Yelp.

Antonio has collaborated with Packt Publishing as both author and reviewer several times. If you want to learn more advanced techniques on testing and security for Android, check out his book Testing and Securing Android Studio Applications. If you are new to Android development, check out these other books he has reviewed for Packt Publishing: Android Studio Application Development and Android Studio Essentials (first and second edition). If you would like to develop games for Android, check out Mastering Android Game Development.

For more information about him, visit his personal website (http://www.ninirola.es). Feel free to reach out on Twitter to @hdezninirola if you have any questions concerning Android or software engineering in general.