Android Application Development With Android Studio
Murat Yener, Onur Dundar · 2016
This chapter guides user through Android application development in Android Studio. It starts by creating an Android application project for phones and tablets and continues with additional development modules for the application. Creating a new Android project is pretty straightforward with Android Studio. Android Studio helps to select the best SDK version for the application. One needs to build the application and launch it on a device after creation of the application project. If a user already has a device attached to the development machine with a compatible Android SDK version, he/she can create a virtual Android device to run the application. The chapter also covers the basic building blocks of Android applications and the capabilities of Android Studio. The main building blocks of Android applications are activities, services, assets, XML files, the Android Manifest file, and modules.