Learn Android Studio

Android Studio is an intuitive, feature-rich, and extremely forgiving Integrated Development Environment (IDE). This IDE is more productive and easier to use for your Android App creations than Eclipse is. While it can be productive, Eclipse is a general framework that is not optimized for building Android apps specifically. Learn Android Studio covers Android Studio and its rich tools ecosystem, including Git and Gradle.§This book covers how Android Studio works seamlessly with Git, for source control, and Gradle, a build and test tool. In addition, this book demonstrates how to develop/collaborate with BitBucket--a web-based hosting service running git. Git is the de-facto standard version control system for Android. A complete example Android project will accompany this volume and be available for download from a public git repository on BitBucket. §With this book, you learn the latest and most productive tools in the Android tools ecosystem, and the best practices for Android app development including git-flow. A complete case study--called Reminders--is woven throughout this book. The reader can takeaway the case study code as a template or framework to re-use and customize for their own similar app.