Android Studio

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Android Studio is the ocial[4] integrated development

environment (IDE) for Android platform development.
It was announced on May 16, 2013 at the Google I/O
conference. Android Studio is freely available under the
Apache License 2.0.[3]

4 References

Android Studio was in early access preview stage starting from version 0.1 in May 2013, then entered beta
stage starting from version 0.8 which was released in June
2014.[5] The rst stable build was released in December
2014, starting from version 1.0.[6]

[1] Android Studio Stable Channel. Android Tools Project.

December 3, 2015. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
[2] Android Studio Canary Channel. Android Tools Project.
August 21, 2015. Retrieved August 1, 2016.

Based on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA software, Android Studio is designed specically for Android development.[7]
It is available for download on Windows, Mac OS X and
Linux,[8][9] and replaced Eclipse Android Development
Tools (ADT) as Googles primary IDE for native Android
application development.

[3] Android Studio Plugin. android.googlesource.com.

Google. Retrieved May 20, 2015.
[4] Android Studio website.
[5] Download Android Studio. Android Developers. Retrieved June 13, 2015.

Features

[6] Google Launches Android Studio And New Features For

Developer Console, Including Beta Releases And Staged
Rollout. VentureBeat. December 8, 2014. Retrieved
December 9, 2014.

New features are expected to be rolled out with each release of Android Studio. The following features are provided in the current stable version:[10][11]

[7] Ducrohet, Xavier; Norbye, Tor; Chou, Katherine (May

15, 2013). Android Studio: An IDE built for Android.
Android Developers Blog. Google. Retrieved May 16,
2013.

Gradle-based build support.

Android-specic refactoring and quick xes.
Lint tools to catch performance, usability, version
compatibility and other problems.

[8] Getting Started with Android Studio. Android Developers. Google. Retrieved May 14, 2013.

ProGuard integration and app-signing capabilities.

[9] Haslam, Oliver (May 16, 2013). Download Android Studio IDE For Windows, OS X And Linux. Redmond Pie.
Retrieved May 16, 2013.

Template-based wizards to create common Android

designs and components.
A rich layout editor that allows users to drag-anddrop UI components, option to preview layouts on
multiple screen congurations.[12]

[10] Honig, Zach (May 15, 2013). Google intros Android

Studio, an IDE for building apps. Engadget. AOL. Retrieved May 16, 2013.

Support for building Android Wear apps

[11] Dobie, Alex (May 15, 2013). Android Studio unveiled at

Google I/O keynote. Android Central. Mobile Nations.
Retrieved May 16, 2013.

Built-in support for Google Cloud Platform, enabling integration with Google Cloud Messaging
and App Engine.[13]

[12] Olano, Drew (May 15, 2013). Google Launches Android Studio And New Features For Developer Console, Including Beta Releases And Staged Rollout.
TechCrunch. AOL. Retrieved May 16, 2013.

System requirements

Version 2.x

[13] Android Studio BETA. Google. Google. May 15, 2013.

Retrieved August 15, 2014.

Version 1.x
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External links
Ocial homepage at developer.android.com.
Introduction at Google I/O 2013 video from
YouTube
Using Android Studio (up-to-date crowdsourcing
guide)
Ocial Eclipse Andmore project
Android Studio Tutorial for beginners

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