Android Studio enters stable release, ready as official IDE for developers
Android Studio, the official Integrated Development Environment (IDE) from Android team is now ready for public use and out of beta. Android Studio is build on IntelliJ IDEA Java IDE. Studio was first released as a preview at I/O in 2013. Developer can now download the IDE from here and you can get more detail on this IDE from Android Developer site. Android studio comes with IDE, SDK tools, Android 5.0 platform and Android 5.0 emulator system image with Google APIs.
Android Studio features
- First-run setup wizard to help get developer started with setup and using IDE/SDK/emulator
- Sample Importing & templates
- Code Editing —advanced code completion, refactoring, and code analysis etc
- Internationalization string editing
- User Interface Design
- Memory monitor
- Unified build system : Gradle based build system to provide flexibility and extensibility to developers.
- Build variants and multiple APK generation
- Instant access to Google Cloud Services. Developers can add Cloud backends and endpoints to applications
- Easy to migrate or import projects from Eclipse IDE into Android Studio
- GitHub Integration
- Multi-screen app development
- Virtual devices of all shapes and sizes
- Lint tools to catch performance, usability, version compatibility, and other problems.
- ProGuard and app-signing capabilities.
System Requirements
Windows
- Microsoft® Windows® 8/7/Vista/2003 (32 or 64-bit)
- 2 GB RAM minimum, 4 GB RAM recommended
- 400 MB hard disk space + at least 1 G for Android SDK, emulator system images, and caches
- 1280 x 800 minimum screen resolution
- Java Development Kit (JDK) 7
- Optional for accelerated emulator: Intel® processor with support for Intel® VT-x, Intel® EM64T (Intel® 64), and Execute Disable (XD) Bit functionality
Mac OS X
- Mac® OS X® 10.8.5 or higher, up to 10.9 (Mavericks)
- 2 GB RAM minimum, 4 GB RAM recommended
- 400 MB hard disk space
- At least 1 GB for Android SDK, emulator system images, and caches
- 1280 x 800 minimum screen resolution
- Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6
- Java Development Kit (JDK) 7
- Optional for accelerated emulator: Intel® processor with support for Intel® VT-x, Intel® EM64T (Intel® 64), and Execute Disable (XD) Bit functionality
On Mac OS, run Android Studio with Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 for optimized font rendering. You can then configure your project to use Java Development Kit (JDK) 6 or JDK 7.
Linux
- GNOME or KDE desktop
- GNU C Library (glibc) 2.11 or later
- 2 GB RAM minimum, 4 GB RAM recommended
- 400 MB hard disk space
- At least 1 GB for Android SDK, emulator system images, and caches
- 1280 x 800 minimum screen resolution
- Oracle® Java Development Kit (JDK) 7
Tested on Ubuntu® 12.04, Precise Pangolin (64-bit distribution capable of running 32-bit applications.
