Exploring Android Studio

Let's see how we can do some basic things with the official Android Studio IDE. You can change the appearance of Android Studio as you wish. It has some inbuilt themes like:

  • The IntelliJ theme, which is the default theme
  • The Dracula theme, which is a dark cool theme

You can change the theme by navigating to File | Settings | Appearance.

Creating a sample application

Let's create our first sample Android application using Android Studio.

  1. To create a new project, select File | New Project. The following window will appear:
    Creating a sample application

    The wizard for creating a new project

  2. Enter the values in Application name:, Company Domain:, and Package name: ...

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