What's new in Android Studio 4.0

The Android Studio 4.0 release introduces a new Motion Editor, Build Speed window, Live Layout inspector, Multi Preview for your layouts, support for Kotlin DSL script files, and a Smart editor for R8 rules.

The new Build Analyzer feature helps you understand and diagnose issues with your build process, such as disabled optimizations and improperly configured tasks.

Stable release of Android Studio 3.3 released

Android Studio 3.3 released, with Navigation editor, support Instant Apps in App bundle, as well as build system updates such as lazy task configuration, better debug info when using obsolete APIs, improved incremental Java compilation when using annotation processors, and a preview of the new R8 code shrinker. Also added more granularity in the profiler options and added slow frame highlighting to help debug quicker.

You can download it today from https://developer.android.com/studio/.

Or, if you already installed previous release of Android Studio,  you can simply update to the latest version.

What’s new in Android Studio 3.3

~ Android Developers Blog post Android Studio 3.3

Android Studio 3.2, new APIs for ARCore, what’s new in Kubernetes 1.12, & more!

Android Studio 3.2, new APIs for ARCore, what’s new in Kubernetes 1.12, & more!

Learn Android Studio 3: Efficient Android App Development

Learn Android Studio 3: Efficient Android App Development

Build Android apps using the popular and efficient Android Studio 3 suite of tools, an integrated development environment (IDE) for Android developers using Java APIs. With this book, you’ll learn the latest and most productive tools in the Android tools ecosystem, ensuring quick Android app development and minimal effort on your part.

Along the way, you’ll use Android Studio to develop Java-based Android apps, tier by tier through practical examples. These examples cover core Android topics such as notifications and toast; intents and broadcast receivers; and services. Then, you’ll learn how to publish your apps and sell them online and in the Google Play store.

What You'll Learn

• Use Android Studio 3 to quickly and confidently build your first Android apps
• Build an Android user interface using activities and layouts, event handling, images, menus and the action bar
• Incorporate new elements including fragments
• Integrate data with data persistence 
• Access the cloud 

Who This Book Is For

Those who may be new to Android Studio 3 or Android Studio in general. You may or may not be new to Android development in general. Some prior experience with Java is also recommended.

What's New in Android Studio 3.0

What's New in Android Studio 3.0:

Android Studio 3.0 brings a ton of new features and improvements, including Kotlin support, Android O APIs, Java 8 language features support, external APK debugging, Instant Apps modules and refactoring, an integrated Android Profiler and more.

Migrating to Android Gradle Plugin 3.0.0:

Android Studio 3.0: Android Profiler:

Android Studio 3.0: Java 8 Language Features Support:


Read more in the release notes here: https://goo.gl/7yo9SM

Android Studio 3.0 available on canary release channel

Just in time for Google I/O 2017, Android Studio 3.0 is available to download on  canary release channel.

To accelerate your development flow, Android Studio 3.0 includes three major features: a new suite of app performance profiling tools to quickly diagnose performance issues, support for the Kotlin programming language, and increased Gradle build speeds for large sized app projects. Android Studio 3.0 also tightly integrates with Android platform development with these additional key features: support for Instant App development, inclusion of the Google Play Store in the Android O emulator system images, and new wizards for Android O development. Overall, this first canary release of Android Studio 3.0 has 20+ new features.



Please refer to the announcement blogpost "Android Studio 3.0 Canary 1" for more details.

Expert Android Studio

Take your Android programming skills to the next level by unleashing the potential of Android Studio

Expert Android Studio

Expert Android Studio bridges the gap between your Android programing skills with the provided tools including Android Studio, NDK, Gradle and Plugins for IntelliJ Idea Platform. Packed with best practices and advanced tips and techniques on Android tools, development cycle, continuos integration, release management, testing, and performance, this book offers professional guidance to experienced developers who want to push the boundaries of the Android platform with the developer tools. You'll discover how to use the tools and techniques to unleash your true potential as a developer.

• Discover the basics of working in Android Studio and Gradle, as well as the application architecture of the latest Android platform
• Understand Native Development Kit and its integration with Android Studio
• Complete your development lifecycle with automated tests, dependency management, continuos integration and release management
• Writing your own Gradle plugins to customize build cycle
• Writing your own plugins for Android Studio to help your development tasks.

Expert Android Studio is a tool for expert and experienced developers who want to learn how to make use of the tools while creating Android applications for use on mobile devices.

What’s New in Android Studio 2.1

Android Studio 2.1 is required to try out new features and APIs of the Android N developer preview including the new Jack compiler and Java 8 language support. It also includes performance improvements to Instant Run, and a number of bug fixes and stability improvements.

Android Studio 2.1 is now available to download through the Stable release channel.

Fixed for the time being, error of "umake android" on Ubuntu 16.04: A default framework for category Android was requested where there is none

Android Studio 2.0 on Ubuntu 16.04

Refer to the last post "Error in installing Android Studio on Ubuntu 16.04 using umake", when I install Android Studio on Ubuntu 16.04 using umake, error message show "ERROR: A default framework for category Android was requested where there is none".

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Android studio and the sdk changed the download pages significantly.
They've been fixed in master, and will be working again in the next release.

If you need you can clone the repository and install from that.
It's less than ideal, but if it can help you for the time being.

git clone https://github.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-make
cd ubuntu-make
bin/umake android

reference: LyzardKing comments in https://github.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-make/issues/302

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This video show how:


Onced installed. openjdk version "1.8.0_03-Ubuntu" will also be installed.

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Updated@2016-05-24:
Another approach is to add the ppa to get the latest version.
It's updated frequently as it's easier to upload a version to a ppa.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-desktop/ubuntu-make
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install ubuntu-make

Error in installing Android Studio on Ubuntu 16.04 using umake

Updated@2016-04-24:
Fixed for the time being, read next post.

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I tried to install Android Studio on Ubuntu 16.04 using umake, refer "Install Android Studio 2.0 on 64-bit Ubuntu 15.10 with Ubuntu Make (umake)". It's reported with error of:

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$ umake android
ERROR: A default framework for category Android was requested where there is none
usage: umake android [-h] {android-ndk} ...

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Android Studio 2.0 and Emulator 25.1.1 are officially now

Android Studio 2.0 and Emulator 25.1.1 are moved to stable release channels.
This release is focused on development productivity by introducing instant run and a much faster emulator. Please see our blog post for more details.

announcement: Android Tools Project Site - Android Studio 2.0 and Emulator 25.1.1 are Available in the Stable, Beta, and Dev Channels

Upgrade to Android Studio 2.0 from 1.5:

Android Studio 2.0 Beta 5 Available in the Canary Channel

Android Studio Game Development: Concepts and Design

Android Studio Game Development: Concepts and Design

This one of a kind short book walks any Android developer through the process of creating mobile games using the new Android Studio IDE. Android Studio offers a myriad of tools for developers such as enhanced intellisense and device emulation. This book provides a quick and easy to read format; introduces the reader to these key tools and gives them the knowledge they need to develop games in Android Studio.

What You’ll Learn

• How to create projects in Android Studio
• How to use the SDK manager to keep your Android SDK current
• How to commit and get projects to and from Git hub
• How to use OpenGL ES to load images
• How to react to player input
• How to debug your games using Android Studio

Audience

This book is for those who may be new to game development who have some experience with Android Studio IDE and Android.  To learn about Android Studio, check out Learn Android Studio IDE by Gerber and Craig (Apress).

Android Studio Cookbook

Design, test, and debug your apps using Android Studio

Android Studio Cookbook
About This Book

• See what Material design is about and how to apply it your apps
• Explore the possibilities to develop apps that works on any type of device
• A step-by-step practical guide that will help you build improved applications, change their look, and debug them

Who This Book Is For
This book is for developers that are already familiar with programming concepts and have already started creating apps for the Android platform, for example, by using the Eclipse IDE. It is for developers who intend to use Android Studio as their primary IDE or want to use Android Studio more efficiently.

What You Will Learn

• Develop Android Studio applications using Genymotion
• Apply the concepts of Material design to your applications
• Use memory monitoring tools to tweak performance
• Build applications for Android Wearable
• Capture images, video, or audio within your Android app
• Use content providers to display data
• Build apps with a cloud-based backend
• Create media-related apps that will run on phones, phablets, tablets, and TVs

In Detail
This book starts with an introduction of Android Studio and why you should use this IDE rather than Eclipse. Moving ahead, it teaches you to build a simple app that requires no backend setup but uses Google Cloud or Parse instead. After that, you will learn how to create an Android app that can send and receive text and images using Google Cloud or Parse as a backend. It explains the concepts of Material design and how to apply them to an Android app. Also, it shows you how to build an app that runs on an Android wear device.

Later, it explains how to build an app that takes advantage of the latest Android SDK while still supporting older Android versions. It also demonstrates how the performance of an app can be improved and how memory management tools that come with the Android Studio IDE can help you achieve this.

By the end of the book, you will be able to develop high quality apps with a minimum amount of effort using the Android Studio IDE.

Style and approach
This is a practical guide full of challenges and many real-world examples that demonstrate interesting development concepts. Besides smartphones and tablets, it also covers Android wearable devices and Android TV. Although strongly recommended, it is not necessary to own any Android device yourself.

Android Studio Development Essentials - Android 6 Edition

Android Studio Development Essentials - Android 6 Edition

Fully updated for Android 6, the goal of this book is to teach the skills necessary to develop Android based applications using the Android Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and the Android 6 Software Development Kit (SDK).

Beginning with the basics, this book provides an outline of the steps necessary to set up an Android development and testing environment. An overview of Android Studio is included covering areas such as tool windows, the code editor and the Designer tool. An introduction to the architecture of Android is followed by an in-depth look at the design of Android applications and user interfaces using the Android Studio environment. More advanced topics such as database management, content providers and intents are also covered, as are touch screen handling, gesture recognition, camera access and the playback and recording of both video and audio. This edition of the book also covers printing, transitions and cloud-based file storage.

The concepts of material design are also covered in detail, including the use of floating action buttons, Snackbars, tabbed interfaces, card views, navigation drawers and collapsing toolbars.

In addition to covering general Android development techniques, the book also includes Google Play specific topics such as implementing maps using the Google Maps Android API, in-app billing and submitting apps to the Google Play Developer Console.

Chapters also cover advanced features of Android Studio such as Gradle build configuration and the implementation of build variants to target multiple Android device types from a single project code base.

Assuming you already have some Java programming experience, are ready to download Android Studio and the Android SDK, have access to a Windows, Mac or Linux system and ideas for some apps to develop, you are ready to get started.

What's New in Android Studio (Android Dev Summit 2015)

Related:
- Steps to create AVD using new Android Emulator in Android Studio 2.0 Preview

A new Android Studio 2.0 Preview 2 is available in canary channel

Android SDK Platform Android 6.0 revision 2

Install Android Studio 2.0 Preview on Ubuntu Linux, parallel with existing installed Android Studio

Android Studio 2.0 Preview is available to download in Canary Channel now. This video show how to download and run in Ubuntu (Ubuntu-GNOME 15.10 on VirtualBox/Windows 10), in parallel with existing installed Android Studio 1.5.


(reference: Android Developers Blog)

Related:
- Download and run Android Studio 2.0 Preview on Windows 10

Android Studio 1.4.1 is available

Android Studio 1.4.1 is available in the stable channel: