Learn Android Studio 4: Efficient Java-Based Android Apps Development

© Ted Hagos 2020

T. HagosLearn Android Studio 4https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5937-5_2

2. Android Studio

Ted Hagos¹ 

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Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines

 

What the chapter covers:

• Getting Android Studio

• Configuring the IDE

• Basic parts of the IDE

Developing Android applications wasn’t always done in Android Studio (AS). In the early days of Android, developers built apps using just the bare SDK, a bunch of command-line tools, and Ant build scripts (Apache Ant)—it was quite the old school; soon after, the Android Developer Tools (ADT) for Eclipse was released. Eclipse became the dominant tool for Android development until Android Studio came along.

Android Studio came in 2013. To be sure, it was still on beta, but the writing on the wall ...