Setting up your emulator in Android Studio
Android Studio is a reliable and mature IDE. As a result, Android Studio has been the favored IDE for developing Android applications since 2014. Of course, you can still use other IDEs, but the advantage of Android Studio is that you do not need to install the Android SDK separately.
Getting ready
You need to have done the previous recipe to be able to follow along with this recipe since we will be setting up our emulator in order to run the project we just created.
How to do it…
This chapter seeks to be friendly to beginners and also move you smoothly toward more advanced Android as you work through the recipes.
Let’s follow these steps to see how you can set up your emulator and run your project in the Creating a Hello, Android Community App using Android Studio recipe:
- Navigate to Tools | Device Manager. Once the device manager is ready, you have two options: Virtual or Physical. Virtual means you will...
