Android Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for the Android platform. It is based on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA software and provides integrated Android developer tools for development and debugging.
Android Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for the Android platform. Android Studio provides integrated Android developer tools for development and debugging. If you are not comfortable using an Android Studio, you may instead download (or continue to use) the ADT Bundle (Eclipse with the ADT Plugin) or IntelliJ.
Several features are expected to be rolled out to the users as the software matures; currently, however the following features are provided for:
- Live Layout: WYSIWYG Editor - Live Coding - Real-time App Rendering
- Developer Console: optimization tips, assistance for translation, referral tracking, campaigning and promotions - Usage Metrics.
- Provision for beta releases and staged rollout.
- Gradle-based build support.
- Android-specific refactoring and quick fixes.
- Lint tools to catch performance, usability, version compatibility and other problems.
- ProGuard and app-signing capabilities.
- Template-based wizards to create common Android designs and components.
- A rich layout editor that allows you to drag-and-drop UI components, option to preview layouts on multiple screen configurations.
