Android App Development Tutorial . Build your first app.

LEARNING

ANDROID STUDIO

MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT  WITH

JAVA AND XML

08EP609 : Mobile APP Development Lab      B.E. [C.S.E] 2017 - 2021

CONTENTS

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, F.E.A.T., A.U.

Ex. No. 01.

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Study of Android Studio IDE

Introduction:

Android Studio is the official Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Android app development, based on IntelliJ IDEA . On top of IntelliJ's powerful code editor and developer tools, Android Studio offers even more features that enhance the productivity when building Android apps, such as:

Built-in support for Google Cloud Platform, making it easy to integrate Google Cloud Messaging and App Engine Each project in Android Studio contains one or more modules with source code files and resource files. Types of modules include:

By default, Android Studio displays the project files in the Android project view, as shown in figure. This view is organized by modules to provide quick access to the project's key source files.

All the build files are visible at the top level under Gradle Scripts and each app module contains the following folders:

•      manifests:      Contains

AndroidManifest.xml file.

the

The Android project structure on disk differs from this flattened representation. To see the actual file structure of the project, select Project from the Project dropdown (showing as Android).

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Developer can also customize the view of the project files to focus on specific aspects of the app development. For example, selecting the Problems view of any project displays links to the source files containing any recognized coding and syntax errors, such as a missing XML element closing tag in a layout file.

The project files in Problems view, showing a layout file with a problem.

The user interface

The Android Studio main window is made up of several logical areas identified in figure. The Android Studio main window.

The toolbar used to carry out a wide range of actions, including running an app and launching Android tools.

The navigation bar helps to navigate through the project and open files for editing. It provides a more compact view of the structure visible in the Project window.

The editor window is