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Android Studio 3.5 Development Essentials - Java Edition

By : Neil Smyth
Book Image

Android Studio 3.5 Development Essentials - Java Edition

By: Neil Smyth

Overview of this book

Android applications have become an important part of our daily lives and lots of effort goes into developing an Android application. This book will help you to build you own Android applications using Java. Android Studio 3.5 Development Essentials – Java Edition first teaches you to install Android development and test environment on different operating systems. Next, you will create an Android app and a virtual device in Android Studio, and install an Android application on emulator. You will test apps on physical Android devices, then study Android Studio code editor and constraint layout, Android architecture, the anatomy of an Android app, and Android activity state changes. The book then covers advanced topics such as views and widgets implementation, multi-window support integration, and biometric authentication, and finally, you will learn to upload your app to Google Play console and handle the build process with Gradle. By the end of this book, you will have gained enough knowledge to develop powerful Android applications using Java.
Table of Contents (86 chapters)
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Index

24.3 Using Apply Changes

When a project has been loaded into Android Studio, but is not yet running on a device or emulator, it can be launched as usual using either the run (marked A in Figure 24-1) or debug (B) button located in the toolbar:

Figure 24-1

After the app has launched and is running, the icon on the run button will change to indicate that the app is running and the Apply Changes and Restart Activity and Apply Code Changes buttons will be enabled as indicated in Figure 24-2 below:

Figure 24-2

If the changes are unable to be applied when one of the Apply Changes buttons is selected, Android Studio will display a message indicating the failure together with an explanation. Figure 24-3, for example, shows the message displayed by Android Studio when the Apply Code Changes option is selected after a change has been made to a resource file:

Figure 24-3

In this situation, the solution is to use the Apply Changes and Restart Activity option (for...