
The editor window is a space where we can create and modify our code.It gives a compact view of structure visible in the Project window. The navigation bar helps in navigating our project and open files for editing.The toolbar provides us a wide range of actions, which includes running apps and launching Android tools.

The Android Studio main window contains the several logical areas which are shown in the below figure: We will see the actual file structure of the project by selecting the Project from the Project dropdown.

Android Studio has a consolidated environment where we can develop for all Android devices.It has a fast and feature-rich emulator for app testing.It has a flexible Gradle-based build system.Besides this, other programming languages are supported by Android Studio. Since 7th May 2019, Kotlin is Google's preferred language for Android application development. The first stable built version was released in December 2014, starts from version 1.0. It started its early access preview from version 0.1 in May 2013. Android Studio provides more features that enhance our productivity while building Android apps.Īndroid Studio was announced on 16th May 2013 at the Google I/O conference as an official IDE for Android app development. Android Studio is the official Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for android application development.
