The production of a signed APK is the final step in what will have been a long journey. Beginning with nothing more than an idea, each application will have grown through countless cycles of design, development, and testing before finally being placed on a shelf in a store such as Android Play Store.
Android Studio has been designed to assist developers on every step of this journey, and one of the reasons that Google has put so much into the product; is because, by investing in the developers of the future and making it easier for them to put ideas into practice, the Android platform can only become better.
In this book we have explored the only IDE created specifically for Android development, and we have seen how this specialized approach provides many benefits to the developer. The visual and intuitive nature of the Layout Editor and the way that Constraint Layouts...
