1.7 Android Software Development Kit (SDK)

The Android SDK provides the tools you’ll need to build Android apps. It gets installed with Android Studio. See the Before You Begin section (after the Preface) for details on downloading the software you’ll need to develop Android apps, including Java SE 7 and Android Studio.

Android Studio

Android Studio9 was announced at the Google I/O developer conference in 2013 and is now Google’s preferred Android IDE. The IDE includes:

  • GUI designer

  • code editor with support for syntax coloring and line numbering

  • auto-indenting and auto-complete (i.e., type hinting)

  • debugger

  • version control system

  • refactoring ...

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