Android Studio v1.0 - The official IDE for Android application development

[Arthur]

Website / Download (Windows, OS X, Linux) / Android Studio Basics

 

Android Studio is the official IDE for Android application development, based on IntelliJ IDEA. On top of the capabilities you expect from IntelliJ, Android Studio offers:

 

• 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
  
• And much more
  

 

[Arreks]

Looks pretty nice, I've always wanted to get into appdev but I'm too lazy. Maybe I'll pull my finger out over the break

[hardtailstar]

cheers @Arthur

 

Ive been using the beta one which has been too buggy to use so I will try this

[fiza]

Time to raise this from the dead.

 

Is anyone using Android Studio in their school?

[sonofsanta]

On a similar note: is this suitable as a replacement for MIT AppInventor? Because that software is such a pain in the

[fiza]

On a similar note: is this suitable as a replacement for MIT AppInventor? Because that software is such a pain in the

 

That's exactly the reason we are looking at it!

Also OCR have said that AppInventor is not suitable for A Level work but didn't let us know what they recommend!!

[Arthur]

v1.3 is now available.

 

Get your hands on Android Studio 1.3 « Android Developers Blog