3. Knowing Development Environment(Android Studio)

I liked eclipse very much than Android Studio to get started with android but since Google is supporting Android Studio and sooner eclipse will not be supported by google (may be). So that's why better start with Android Studio.

Now after starting Android Studio few seconds letter a window will pop-up asking various things like this.

First Screen: 

Select Start new project.

Second Screen :

 

After filling application name and some entries in this screen you will be asked for minimum sdk version which means on the minimum android version you want your app to run on, so select any one of them.

Third Screen :

 

Well getting much older version our application will not support the new functionalities which are being added as time passes with new ones(versions). Try to select which can cover most of the devices and can give most of the latest functionalities (Depends upon time). Here you might want to know about term used after jelly bean "api' 16 something.

Api just represents the functionalities which are added up with that version of android which means, in api level of kitkat some functionalities are there which are not supported by jelly bean means jelly bean will not support the app which uses kitkat api leveled functionalities. Well well well some important features of higher version of android application api can be added by importing support libraries but not most of them.

Fourth Screen :

Select Blank Activity from this screen.

Fifth Screen :

Don't edit any of the text fields. I have covered what details are these in the next posts.

Sixth Screen :(The Final screen)
 

Now, In eclipse there was an option of minimum ,maximum and compile with sdk version but in Android Studio you can only select minimum level of sdk version. So application will be compiled with latest version of android api available. So you must have latest android SDK platform installed within android studio. You can check and download the latest one by :-

1. Select the tools option from the very first bar of the application and then Android->SDK Manager.

2. If latest platform is not checked then check it then download will happen and then installation also.

3.After these all the stuffs you have made your Android Studio ready for Programming.

In next post we will deal with Java programs and XMLs files.