Navigating in Android Studio

Android Studio opens your project in a window like the one shown in Figure 1.7. If you have launched Android Studio before, your window configuration might look a little different.

Figure 1.7  A fresh project window

A fresh project window

The different panes of the project window are called tool windows.

The lefthand view is the project tool window. From here, you can view and manage the files associated with your project.

The view across the bottom is the build tool window. Here you can view details about the compilation process and the status of the build. When you created the project, Android Studio automatically ...

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