Beginning Android Games, Third Edition

© Mario Zechner, J.F. DiMarzio and Robert Green 2016

Mario Zechner, J. F. DiMarzio and Robert Green, Beginning Android Games, 10.1007/978-1-4842-0472-6_2

2. First Steps with Android Studio

Mario Zechner¹ , J. F. DiMarzio² and Robert Green³

(1)Graz, Steiermark, Austria

(2)Celebration, Florida, USA

(3)Portland, Oregon, USA

The Android Studio and the Android SDK provide a set of tools that enable you to create applications in a short amount of time. This chapter will guide you through the process of building a simple Android application with the SDK tools. This involves the following steps:

1. Setting up the development environment.

2. Creating a new project in Android Studio and writing your code.

3. Running the application on the emulator or on a device.

4. Debugging ...