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Android Studio IDE Quick Reference: A Pocket Guide to Android Studio Development
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Android Studio IDE Quick Reference: A Pocket Guide to Android Studio Development

by Ted Hagos
July 2019
Beginner to intermediate
186 pages
3h 38m
English
Apress
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© Ted Hagos 2019
Ted HagosAndroid Studio IDE Quick Referencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4953-6_1

1. Setup

Ted Hagos1 
(1)
Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines
 
What this chapter covers:

  • Installing Android Studio

  • Setting up the IDE

  • Basic configuration

Developing applications for Android was not always as convenient as it is today. When Android 1.0 was released in 2008, what developers got by way of a development kit was little more than a handful of command line tools and Ant build scripts. Building apps with Vim, Ant, and other command line tools wasn’t so bad if you’re used to that kind of thing, but many developers were not used to it. The lack of IDE capabilities like code hinting, project setups, and integrated debugging was somewhat ...

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