If you haven’t move to Android Studio yet do it now, don’t stop to get a coffee, do it now. This tool will hugely improve your productivity and fun when developing for Android. It’s currently due for a major 2.0 release very soon which will bring in lots of new features including a faster emulator and Instant Run. The quote below is from the existing Android Studio home page.
Android Studio is the official IDE for Android application development, based on IntelliJ IDEA. On top of the capabilities you expect from IntelliJ, Android Studio offers:
- Flexible Gradle-based build system
- Build variants and multiple
apkfile generation - Code templates to help you build common app features
- Rich layout editor with support for drag and drop theme editing
linttools to catch performance, usability, version compatibility, and other problems- ProGuard and app-signing capabilities
- Built-in support for Google Cloud Platform, making it easy to integrate Google Cloud Messaging and App Engine
- And much more
A, currently, better emulator to test for different devices and screen sizes is Genymotion. It is faster and has more features than the stock emulator that comes with Android Studio. I’m not sure how much longer I will continue to use this tool, once the new Android Studio 2.0 comes out of Beta, as the new built in emulator seems to cover all my needs. I will let you know about the new version as soon as it is officially released and I have integrated some of my projects with it.
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