Learn Android Studio

As a knowledge worker, your choice of tools can mean the difference between struggling and thriving. We’re always searching for tools that increase productivity and automate work. Certain tools have benefits that are so apparent that one adopts them immediately. Android Studio is one such tool. We were introduced to Android Studio just a few days after its prerelease at Google I/O in 2013. Prior to that time, we had both been using Android Developer Tools (ADT) both professionally and in the classroom. ADT is an Android development environment built upon the opensource integrated development environment (IDE) called Eclipse. While Android Studio was still in early prerelease, we both began to use Android Studio professionally. Android Studio is a collaboration between JetBrains and Google. Android Studio is built atop JetBrain’s IntelliJ, and so its functionality is a superset of IntelliJ. Most anything you can do with IntelliJ, you can also do in Android Studio. Android Studio is revolutionary because it streamlines the Android development process and makes Android development far more accessible than it has previously beenviii. Android Studio is now the official IDE for Android.