Android Studio installation and use

After Google launched Android studio in 2013, it supported Android development alone, an IDE built on the Java language integrated development environment IntelliJ. Especially after the stable version of Android studio1.0, Google used it as an official development tool and also recommended that developers use Android Studio. 15 Google announced the end of the development and support of the Eclipse Android tools, so the development of Android is still more recommended for Android studio.

First, a brief introduction to the installation and use of Android Studio.

1. First you have to install the JDK, directly to the official web download can: http://developers.sun.com/downloads/, follow the steps to install and then add environment variables.

2. Download Android Studio installation package, here can FQ, recommended official website: http://developer.android.com. If not, you can download it on the official Chinese website: http://www.android-studio.org/index.php/. or Baidu software download: Http://rj.baidu.com/soft/detail/27390.html?ald.

3. Directly run the installation package directly after download. I downloaded the 1.4 version of the.

3.1 The JDK will be detected at the beginning, so the environment variables should be set up before.

3.2 Back to next directly, until you choose where to place your Android studio files, select a larger space. There are also locations where the SDK is placed and optional.

3.3 The following is also selected by default, waiting for installation to complete.

3.4 Running Android Studio will appear if there is a previous configuration, if the default option is selected for the first time.

4. Run Android Studio

4.1 I have previously downloaded a version that contains the SDK, so you can create the project directly.

If there is no SDK can be back to the official Web Download SDK offline package, from Configure->project Defaults->project Structure, in the inside reposition.

You can also open the SDK Manager and download the SDK you need.

4.2 Click Create a new project here to illustrate the difference between project and module:

Application in Android Studio is equivalent to the workspace concept in eclipse

Module in Android Studio is equivalent to project concept in eclipse

4.3 Create your own project name, beginning with uppercase.

4.4 Choose the lowest available version of the SDK, Android Studio is powerful is to provide a minimum version of the population in real-time usage percentage

4.5 Then select the template, choose one directly on demand, then next go down and choose Default.

Second, Android studio convenient settings

1. Chinese garbled: settings->appearance, on the right side check the "Override Default fonts by", choose your favorite font.

2. Originally IDE Development main mode Many people are not accustomed to, can go to settings->appearance inside modify theme, change into Darcula mode.

3. If you can't adapt to the default keyboard shortcut settings for Android Studio, you can choose a different IDE's shortcut settings in Settings->keymap, or you can add your own changes.

Android Studio installation and use