Preface

Mobile applications have had a huge increase in popularity in the last few years and interest is still growing among users. Mobile operating systems are available not only for smart phones, but tablets as well, therefore increasing the possible market share for these applications.

Android has characteristics that make it pleasant for developers such as open source and having a high level of community, driven development. Android has always been in competition with iOS (the Apple mobile system) in everything and with XCode, iOS presented itself as a more centralized development environment. The new Android Studio IDE makes this centralization finally available for Android developers and makes this tool indispensable for a good Android developer.

This book about Android Studio shows users how to develop and build Android applications with this new IDE. It is not only a getting started book, but also a guide for advanced developers on building their applications faster and more productively. This book will follow a tutorial approach from the basic features to the steps to build for release, including practical examples.