Welcome to the first step of our course “Begin Android Application Development with Android Crown”. Here, you are going to learn how to Install Android Studio in your system to develop Android Apps in the Simplest way.
Android Studio is the official integrated development environment (IDE) for Google’s Android operating system which is built on Jet Brains’ IntelliJ IDEA software designed specifically for Android development.
Android Studio Platform was announced on May 16, 2013, at the Google conference. It was in the early access preview stage starting from version 0.1 in May 2013, then entered the beta stage starting from version 0.8 which was released in June 2014. The first stable build was released in December 2014, starting from version 1.0.
Download Android Studio
Google provides Android Studio for the Windows and Mac OS X platforms. You can download Android Studio from the Android Studio homepage, where you’ll also find the traditional SDKs with Android Studio as command-line tools. Before downloading Android Studio, make sure your platform meets the following requirements:
Windows requirements
- Microsoft Windows 7/8/10 (32-bit or 64-bit)
- 3 GB RAM minimum, 8 GB RAM recommended (plus 1 GB for the Android Emulator)
- 2 GB of available disk space minimum, 4 GB recommended (500 MB for IDE plus 1.5 GB for Android SDK and emulator system image)
- 1280 x 800 minimum screen resolution
Mac OS requirements
- Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) or higher, up to 10.13 (High Sierra)
- 3 GB RAM minimum, 8 GB RAM recommended (plus 1 GB for the Android Emulator)
- 2 GB of available disk space minimum, 4 GB recommended (500 MB for IDE plus 1.5 GB for Android SDK and emulator system image)
- 1280 x 800 minimum screen resolution
Install and configure Android Studio in Windows OS
Before starting the installation process, you should have to install Java.
let’s get started
The installer responded by presenting the Android Studio Setup dialog box shown in Figure below
Clicking Next took us to the following panel, Click on the Next button.
Choose the default installation location click Next, and be greeted with the Choose Start Menu Folder panel.
how to Install Android studio
We kept the default setting and clicked Install.
After clicking Next, the installer presented the Completing Android Studio Setup panel. To complete the installation press the Finish button. in the install process Finish setup then press OK in Complete installation.
Step 1: Choose your project
In the Choose your project screen that appears, you can select the type of project you want to create from categories of device form factors. For example, in below figure shows a project with a basic Android Activity for phones and tablets selected. Here I choose an empty activity.
After you make a selection, click Next.
Step 2: Configure your project
The next step is to configure some settings and create your new project, as described below and shown in the below figure.
- Give an appropriate name to your application.
- Specify the Package name. You can also use By default package name and this package name, as a result, it becomes your application ID, which you can change later.
- Specify the Save location where you want to locally store your project.
- Select the appropriate Language, here I choose “Java” if you want to make it with Kotlin then you can select Language as “Kotlin“.
- Select the Minimum API level you want your app to support. When you select a lower API level, your app can rely on fewer modern Android APIs. However, a larger percentage of Android devices are able to run your app.
Conclusion:
Now you have installed Android Studio and you know how to Install Android Studio and how to create your first app project in Android Studio. Android Studio is now installed in your System and It automatically checks for updates. If you update it you may need to repeat some of the steps above to get it working again, the first to become an Android developer with Android Crown is over!