Introduction to Android Studio

A high level introduction to Android Studio, the new IDE for Android application development. Learn why you should migrate your projects to Android Studio now and how it can help you be more productive as a developer. Rich layout editor, handy suggestions and fixes, new Android project view - these are just some of the things you can expect from the IDE, which is built on the successful IntelliJ IDEA.

[jordysoquendo]

In windows android studio works so slow need more than 4 gb of ram to work fine.

[lenant]

When will Android Studio be updated to use Intellij Idea 14 as the base? I really love it's decompilation feature. 

[carlhopkinson]

My solution for speeding up Android Development: at least 32GB memory and 8-core i7 with SSD.

[OumSaokosal]

I cannot change Layout in Android Studio while I can in Eclipse, just right click on the layout and click change Layout. Where is it in your Android Studio?

[josuecarnivoro]

How can renaming the package name or importing support libraries be such a pain in the rear??? Sure, in theory it is straightforward to do so, but soon enough I found myself struggling with hordes of bugs and running to stackoverflow just to import a simple project. The performace is equal, if not slower than Eclipse. The worth of Android Studios in the daily development terrain is yet to be seen.

[aliciabeltran]

Crear efficient and lovely videos! Thanks

[saifeddinebargui]

Hello,
do you know how to write a mathematics formula under Android Studio please?

[pshores]

Great presentation. Thanks for the mini introduction :)

[erinkeeton]

I'm want this for making a Oscat Developer app. Once I finish coding it, can I send to Google Play?

[DamienMABIN]

When is ndk coming in Android Studio ? I've been using android studio since a few month now (6 month) but still .... Without ndk integration, c++ autocompletion etc .... it doesn't fit game developers needs :/

[TheDaveStream]

thing is the program does not work 

the templates it makes are using depreciated code O.o
spent 7 hours trying to get this to work

[barrywow]

Any thoughts on using buying the latest Mac Air (macbook air 2.2 ghz i7 8gb 256 gb early 2015) and the current android studio performance?Or should i wait for the skylake processor (later 2015 ?)?

Other prog/ide i use are netbeans/fireworks/lightroom

[nonikolomh]

i want to ask what will i get if my app (made with android studio) will be great? will google buy it? or i will get money with other way? will i get anything? (sorry for bad english)

[atomnous]

why would I use it if it works so slow and taking up a lot of space?

[mrfbach]

Android Studio(java) is slow(heavy), thats true, but i would like to share some tips, to you dont get MAD.
My machine is Linux(Kubuntu 64bits) 4Gb Ram Dual Channel and a Core 2 Duo cpu.
Gradle,
You must controll how much memory and threads the pré-dex process are consuming
1-Open your build.gradle, we will limit max heap size of predex task to '700M', try other values.
android{
....
dexOptions {

//preDexLibraries = true //default true
//jumboMode =false //default false
//incremental=false //default false
javaMaxHeapSize='700M'
threadCount=2 //default 4
}
....
}
Read more here:

2- If you dont have a complex build precess, DONT do clean before build, if you do a clean, the pre-dex task will start, and will consume a lot of ram, now the next builds will execute predex task faster.

3- THIS IS DANGEROUS, If you have a lot of ram like 8 or 16Gb, try disable Swap on linux you can do as root:
swapoff.

4- Be carefull if you are using JDK 8 to start android studio Open file:
studio64.vmoptions
Comment this lines
#-XX:MaxPermSize=350m we dont need this because we are using JDK8
we dont need this in JDK 8 the default value of this is 248mb and JD7 is 48mb

Configure this lines with your memory, im using this:
-Xms512m
-Xmx700m
Startup little slow, but i prefer slow than a unresponsive machine.

5- If you can, don use the SDK emulators, prefere a real device or install android on virtual machine like virtualbox

6- Learn how to build your application from console and use android studio only for coding and configurations.

7- Prefere use Chromium than Firefox while coding, after several hours firefox consume a lot of RAM.

8-Buy more memory, a faster hard disk, faster cpu, the best hardware that your wife allowed you buy

9-Try to buy a NASA supercomputer on EBAY or look for some thrown away.

I hope help someone
SORRY MY BAD ENGLISH, im in vacation and i dont want write correct english....

[xmurli]

Imported project from Eclipse, but Studio keeps telling me something or other is wrong. So I imported eclipse plugin, changed to android 22 but keeps complaining about gradle. no DSL method 'android'. I even upgraded studio. So guys what gives here??? Fix your errors with ACTION to take to correct the error.

[SatyajitBehera]

hello sir,
my AVD is not opening . its showing me to turn on my VT-x . but I already enabled in my BIOS setting. can you help me to solve this issue please.
I hope you will reply me soon.

Dear admin, please add support CC in Bahasa (Indonesia) also. Thank

[OosDepok]

i'm going to test android studio.... wish me luck

[OrangeLionGaming]

Google Developers The graphical layout editor is so buggy :S Everytime freez me studio when i drag&drop any widget. Please fix this bug. Thanks!