Tutorial 1 : Starting with Android Studio

Android Studio is a brand new Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Android platform. It provides some new features and improvements over Eclipse ADT. Android Studio offers:

• Flexible Gradle-based build system.
• Build variants and multiple APK generation.
• Expanded template support for Google Services.
• Rich layout editor with support for theme editing.
• ProGuard and app-signing capabilities.
• Lint tools to catch performance, usability, version compatibility and other problems.
• Built-in support for Google Cloud Platform, making it easy to integrated Google Cloud Messaging and App Engine.

From now, this Android IDE is available for download on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. You can download this IDE at here.

I installed the Android IDE in Linux OS and have nice user experience for it . The GUI view of Android IDE is shown as Figure 1.1.

Figure 1.1

What you still waiting for? Hurry up go to download Android Studio and join us as an Android apps developer.