Android Studio overview
Developed by Google, Android Studio is the official IDE for creating Android applications. Built upon JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA, it provides a comprehensive platform for Android app development. It has all the features to enable you to develop Android apps with ease.
Once you download Android Studio from the official site, you need to download SDKs and set everything up for it to be ready for use. Open your newly installed Android Studio. You will see the following welcome screen:
Figure 2.1 – Android Studio welcome screen
On the top right, we have these quick options:
- New Project: We use this to create new projects in Android Studio.
- Open: We use this when we want to open existing projects using Android Studio.
- Get from VCS: VCS stands for version control system. Examples of VCSs are GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket. We can always link our accounts and easily import projects that are hosted on VCS...