After a half years of being in development, Google has released the first official release of the Android Developer Studio environment. For many Android developers will replace this environment precursor Eclipse, as it had not yet done.
Android Studio
Developing for Android was from the beginning made in the application written in Java Eclipse. Many developers have a love-hate relationship with this lieft-IDE (integrated development environment), although this relationship often turns into just ‘hate’. There were a lot of complaints about vague error messages in Eclipse and there were already people who switched were on an unofficial solution, namely the paid developer environment IntelliJ IDEA, also an IDE for Java development.
At Google I / O in May 2013, Google announced the Android alternative to Studio. This IDE is based on IntelliJ IDEA and development based on Android Studio follows the development of IntelliJ IDEA. Lately, new development tools only integrated into Android Studio and not in Eclipse, even though officially there was no official stable release of Android Studio. Now this release there is, Google will recommend all developers to use Android Studio.
Android Studio 1.0
Recently, Google has the first “stable” version of Android Studio released. In itself says a version number is not much, but the fact that Google has no zero-point iets’ release releases, but a 1.0 release is an important signal. Google says there that Android Studio is ready to use for any developer.
Android Studio has all the features a modern IDE such as addition of code, code refactoring and much more. In addition, Android Studio also has many Android-specific features. It is possible, for example when a new project directly a ‘bare’ application to fill out, so for example, you already have a list or navigation menu in your application.
Also convenient is the ability to instantly see how a layout will look on different screen sizes and screen resolutions. For the makers of international apps are convenient ways to translate text from the app.
Version 1.0 of Android Studio now has an installation wizard that sets everything right. These could include other created an emulator image, so your app can be tested directly on the emulator.
Availability
Android Studio can here, including developer tools, download. The IDE is available for OS X, Windows and Linux.
From: VentureBeat
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