Exploring Android StudioGet relaxed, as the fun is about to begin!

About me

~3 years of Android Development Experience

Pursing Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering

Akshay Chordiya

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Portfolio

Automaton Locker - 100K downloadsActive Notify - 64K downloadsJair Player - 100K downloadsFew other apps too

Flavors

Why Flavors?

It used to create different versions of the same application from a single project

It is extremely useful when you have a demo version and a paid version of your app, etc

Demo

Layout Editor

Layout Editor

Using tools namespace for better Decoupling layout or Extract Layout filePicking any API level, theme, device frameLocalizationYou can even take screenshot of it!The usual stuff (Live Preview, Drag-Drop, etc)

Material IconsSwitching to Vector Assets

Why switch to Vector Assets

They take less spaceAlmost negligible loss of image qualityEasier maintenance. No need to maintain separate

resources for each device density. Just single fileExtremely easy to manipulate image (Tint, Alpha,

etc)Helps to create beautiful animations of imageBackward compatibility*A lot more….

Pre-requisites for Vector Assets

1. Upgrade your project.gradle to newer version of Gradle(Current is gradle:2.0.0-beta6)

2. Switch to new Android Studio 2.03. Switch to new AppCompat library (v23.2.0)

Lint Checker

Find code that doesn't correspond to certain style guidelines

Find duplicate, extra resources, Missing translations

Suggests to use new APIs

Help finding certain performance issues

Scans potential bugs

Plethora of stuff!

Demo

Monitor Tools

Provides a GUI for several Android application debugging and analysis tools

Memory Monitor is used for finding the memory usage of the app

CPU Monitor is used for finding the CPU usage of the app

Network Monitor is used to track the data used by an app

GPU Monitor for Graphics stuff

Demo

Resource Prefix

Mainly should be used by library

Add resourcePrefix ‘tag_’ to your module gradle file

It will warn you make strings which are specific to your library with the tag specified

Example

Bunch of Protips

Use TODO comment to remind you to complete a certain thing in future

Use Analyze Stacktrace feature to manually give stacktrace and find the POJOs causing issues

Plenty of features, tools and shortcuts demo

#ProTip

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Android Studio

Layout Editor Guide

Android Studio Layout Editor Video

Android Studio for Experts

Android Lint - Android Tools

Device Monitor - Android Developers

Vector Asset Studio

Android Vector Graphics Video

Android Studio Vector Assets Video

Questions?

Thank You!