After you click 'Next', select 'Standard' as the type of setup you want for Android Studio. After you click 'OK', it shows a welcome message. If you have a previous version, specify config folder or installation home of the previous version of Android Studio. First, it asks you to import your settings from a previous version of Android Studio. Go to Launchpad or your applications directory, open Android Studio to complete installation. Open android-studio-ide-1641136.dmg (assuming Mac OS X is the target) and drag 'Android Studio' to 'Applications', as shown below. It will automatically detects your operating system and gives the correct Android Studio download link. It includes everything you need to begin developing Android apps.Īfter installing Android Studio, you have: Get the Android StudioĪndroid Studio is the official Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Android development.
We will use developers as a source for material for parts of this course. The best resource for developing Android apps is Android Developers. We will run Hello World on the Android Emulator (which runs very slowly) and on the phone (which is super fast). Before we can run a simple Hello World App we need to install the programming environment.