Let's get started. Installing Android studio.
Posted on Saturday, May 18, 2013
The first thing you'll need to start developing Android apps is an IDE. An IDE (integrated development environment) is a tool that provides, in an unique application, such things as a compiler, a code editor, a debugger, a GUI designer, and many other facilities for development.
If you are an experienced Android developer, you may be familiar with Eclipse. Eclipse is an multilanguaje IDE that has been the default tool for Android development so far. During the Google I/O 2013 event, Google has launched a specific IDE for development, based on the community edition of the Java IDE IntellijIDEA.
This software is called Android Studio. The version available to download right now is v0.1, which is a Early Access Preview. This means that there are features not implemented yet, and that the application may have bugs and should not be used in a production environment. Nevertheless, it seems like Google will be pushing this tool as the default development environment for Android applications.
So, as good developers trying to learn as much as possible, and to be up to date, let's see how to install Android studio.
Installing Android studio.
First of all, you need to download Android studio from developer.android.com. Get the version that match your operating system:download android studio
Now you have to install it. Let's see how to do it for Windows, and in a future post we will see how to do it for ubuntu.
Double click the downloaded .exe file to let the installation process begin.
Android studio should detect your JDK installation folder:
Be sure you have Java JDK installed in your system previously. If you are running a 64bit version of Windows, Android Studio may not be able to find the correct path to your JDK folder. Be sure you have an environmental variable set up with the following parameters:
name: JAVA_HOME or JDK_HOME
value: your path to your JDK folder, usually "C:\Program files\Java\jdk1.7.0_21"
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