Android Studio

Android Studio is Google's official IDE to develop Android applications. It was introduced by Google in 2013 at their annual developer conference Google I/O. After over a year and a half of active development, Android Studio hit its official stable release 1.0 in December 2014. It was based on IntelliJ IDEA software. Let's see how it differs from Eclipse:

  • It provides a live layout editor with real-time rendering (WYSIWYG)
  • It uses the Gradle build system against the traditional Apache ant build system
  • It provides advanced code completion
  • It has inbuilt template-based wizards for common Android designs
  • It offers built-in support for Google Cloud Platform, which helps integrate Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) and the App Engine seamlessly
  • It provides support for Android Wear

The following screenshot displays the typical Android Studio interface with the Dracula theme:

Android Studio
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