Android Studio announced: new development environment for Android Apps - Android World

By Sander Spout on Wed May 15, 2013 | 10 comments |

Developing Android Applications is done in Eclipse since the very beginning of the mobile operating system. Google has written various plug-ins for the Java developer environment to make it. Development in Eclipse as pleasant as possible Unfortunately Eclipse rather cumbersome, it consumes a lot of memory and runs the application often stuck.

Just Google has a new development environment (IDE) announced Android Studio. This is based on the popular Eclipse and IntelliJ alternative built specifically for Android.

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Android Developers due to the shortcomings of Eclipse already switched to the commercial solution IntelliJ. Google now has its own solution created from IntelliJ named Android Studio.

During the presentation of Android Studio by Google on stage at Google I / O, various features of Android Studio specifically focused on Android are demonstrated. Besides code completion, which is quite normal for a development environment, are also generated previews. When you look at the code for a layout for an application, you can automatically generate a preview. This preview can be generated for multiple devices, so you can see how the layout looks on different screen sizes and devices.

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addition to previews of layouts, are also put translated texts in the source view. In the margin you automatically see a preview of the color you’ve just used the app and you’ll see a preview of the icon that you just selected. The preview function is demonstrated for layouts, also works for translations. So you can immediately see how the application looks like when you use different system languages.

Big plans

It is possible to add. automatically studio from Android Google Cloud Messaging This allows you to easily receive push messages from your server in the Androidapp. In the short term, much more automatic scripts are added to Android Studio.

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The first (preview) version of Android Studio is available for download.

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