Android Studio Application Development

Book Description

Create visually appealing applications using the new IntelliJ IDE Android Studio

Overview

• Familiarize yourself with Android Studio IDE
• Enhance the user interface for your app using the graphical editor feature
• Explore the various features involved in developing an android app and implement them

In Detail

Mobile apps have become extremely popular over the last few years and offer a great opportunity for developers. Android is now one of the most popular mobile systems in the world. The new Android Studio IDE has introduced a specialized development environment, welcomed by the emerging Android community, which is perfect for the development of apps.

“Android Studio Application Development” is a practical guide that will show you how to develop and build Android apps using this new, integrated development environment. Following a tutorial approach, this book will progress from the basics features up until the steps to build for release, using real world examples. This book is a must have for every Android app developer evangelist.

Our book explores the Android Studio development environment in-depth, taking you through the necessary steps to create an app, test it, and prepare it for release. First, you will learn how to use the code editor in order to increase your productivity, and to easily create the screens of your app. Then, this book will show you how to debug your app and examine its performance using the most important additional tools within Android Studio: Android SDK tools. We will also take a look at the existing Google Play Services and how they can be integrated into your app.

Finally, it is important for a developer to be able to search for any help they might need. This book provides a vast help section which covers online documentation, updates, and FAQs.

What you will learn from this book

• Install Android Studio and configure the Android Software Development Kit
• Create your first project and explore its structure
• Improve your productivity while programming, by getting the best from the code editor
• Design the user interface and learn how to handle user events
• Integrate the Google Play Services into your app
• Test your app using the emulator and learn how to manage the virtual devices
• Run and debug your app
• Monitor your app whilst it is running and improve its performance
• Build your app for release

Approach

A practical guide, which will show you how to create Android applications using the new Google official IDE, Android Studio.

Who this book is written for

If you are a developer who wants to learn the key features of Android Studio, and learn how to create their first app, this book is ideal for you! Developers interested in this book should be familiar with the object- oriented programming paradigm, and the Java programming language. It is also recommended that you understand the main characteristics of the Android mobile system.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Installing and Configuring Android Studio
Chapter 2: Starting a Project
Chapter 3: Navigating a Project
Chapter 4: Using the Code Editor
Chapter 5: Creating User Interfaces
Chapter 6: Google Play Services
Chapter 7: Tools
Chapter 8: Debugging
Chapter 9: Preparing for Release
Chapter 10: Getting Help

中文：

书名：Android Studio Application Development

使用新的IntelliJ IDE Android Studio创建视觉上吸引人的应用程序

Overview

• 熟悉Android Studio IDE
• 使用图形编辑器功能增强应用程序的用户界面
• 探索开发Android应用程序所涉及的各种功能并实施它们

In Detail

在过去的几年里，移动应用程序变得非常流行，为开发人员提供了一个很好的机会。Android现在是世界上最受欢迎的移动系统之一。新的Android Studio IDE引入了一个专门的开发环境，受到新兴Android社区的欢迎，非常适合应用程序的开发。

Android Studio应用程序开发是一个实用指南，它将向您展示如何使用这种新的集成开发环境来开发和构建Android应用程序。按照教程的方法，这本书将使用真实世界的例子，从基本功能到构建发布的步骤。这本书是每个Android应用程序开发人员的必备读物。

我们的书深入探讨了Android Studio开发环境，带您完成了创建应用程序、测试应用程序并为发布做好准备的必要步骤。首先，您将学习如何使用代码编辑器来提高您的工作效率，并轻松创建应用程序的屏幕。然后，这本书将向你展示如何使用Android Studio中最重要的附加工具：Android SDK工具来调试你的应用程序并检查其性能。我们还将了解现有的Google Play服务以及如何将它们集成到您的应用程序中。

最后，对于开发人员来说，能够搜索他们可能需要的任何帮助是很重要的。这本书提供了大量的帮助部分，包括在线文档、更新和常见问题解答。

What you will learn from this book

• 安装Android Studio并配置Android软件开发工具包
• 创建您的第一个项目并探索其结构
• 通过充分利用代码编辑器，提高编程工作效率
• 设计用户界面并学习如何处理用户事件
• 将Google Play服务集成到您的应用程序中
• 使用模拟器测试您的应用程序并了解如何管理虚拟设备
• Run and debug your app
• 在应用程序运行时对其进行监控并提高其性能
• Build your app for release

Approach

这是一个实用指南，它将向你展示如何使用新的谷歌官方IDE Android Studio来创建Android应用程序。

这本书是为谁写的

如果你是一名开发人员，想要学习Android Studio的关键功能，并学习如何创建他们的第一个应用程序，这本书是你的理想选择！对本书感兴趣的开发人员应该熟悉面向对象编程范例和Java编程语言。此外，还建议您了解Android移动系统的主要特征。

Table of Contents

第1章：安装和配置Android Studio
第2章：启动项目
第3章：导航项目
Chapter 4: Using the Code Editor
Chapter 5: Creating User Interfaces
第6章：Google Play服务
Chapter 7: Tools
Chapter 8: Debugging
第9章：为发布做准备
Chapter 10: Getting Help