Android makes 80% of the market share by being the most dominant mobile operating system. However, creating an Android App might come through as being complicated especially when newbies hear the word “Integrated Development Environment” aka IDE. Fear Not! We’ve put together a little summary on one of the best IDE platforms!
The UI Development process is perfectly portrayed in the live preview panel. This is a great feature that Android Studio boasts as compared to other Android IDE’s.
Another great feature that Android studio emulates is Layout Previewing. This is done in REAL TIME. This feature helps developers get an idea of the look an feel of the application on various devices.
I was taken aback when I learned about Deep Code Analysis, this amazing feature lets you point to a line of code giving you the detailed explanation of errors and bugs. This feature helps so much during the debugging process, it actually decreases the time wasted looking for errors within your code.
Other Great Features that Android Studio has:
- Flexible Gradle-based build system
- Build variants and multiple apk file generation
- Code templates to help you build common app features
- Rich layout editor with support for drag and drop theme editing
- lint tools to catch performance, usability, version compatibility, and other problems
- ProGuard and app-signing capabilities
- Built-in support for Google Cloud Platform, making it easy to integrate Google Cloud Messaging and App Engine
Overall, Android Studio is great, however, it composes of many individual packages that may undergo an update at their own schedule. You can keep in the safe lane by checking the Android Studio site for updates on different packages aswell as the software updates.
