Introduction to Android Studio

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What is Android Studio?


          
               It’s an Android focused IDE, designed specially for the Android development. It was launched on 16th May 2013, during Google I/O 2013 annual event.
               Android studio contains all the Android SDK tools to design, test, debug and profile your app. By looking at the development tools and environment,
               We can its similar to eclipse with the ADT plug-in but as I have mentioned above its android focused IDE,
               There are many cool features available in Android Studio which can foster and increase your development productivity.
               One great thing is that it depends on the IntelliJ Idea IDE which is proved itself a great IDE and has been using by most all the Android engineers.

Let’s download Android Studio :

You can download Android Studio from the android developer site: 
http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html

Features of Android Studio :

As I have mentioned its similar to eclipse with ADT plug-in but Android Studio is having many cool features which can foster and could help you to increase development productivity.

         -->Here are the cool features:
  • Powerful code editing (smart editing, code re-factoring)
  • Rich layout Editor (As you soon as you drag and drop views on the layout, it shows you preview in all the screens including Nexus 4, Nexus 7, Nexus 10 and many other resolutions. Layout designing can be done much faster way as compared to eclipse.)
  • Gradle-based build support
  • Maven Support
  • Templated based wizards
  • Lint tool analysis (The Android lint tool is a static code analysis tool that checks your Android project source files for potential bugs and optimization improvements for correctness, security, performance, usability, accessibility, and internationalization.)
  • Device framed screen capture
  • It provides ability to capture directly generate a screenshot of your application. Yes it was already included in the SDK but Android Studio provides 

Device framed screen capture :

Color Preview :


      I like this feature very much and I have found this feature helpful while working on big projects. 

 While using eclipse, we have to have 3rd party color chooser and picker but this feature gives privilege to select color from in-build color chooser and can also have preview in Colors.xml file.