Android Studio For Mac

Android Studio is a comprehensive Android development environment designed to come as a replacement for Eclipse with ADT.

It is worth mentioning that Android Studio is currently in beta and, as a result numerous features and tools are not yet implemented and users might encounter various bugs.

In addition to the capabilities provided from IntelliJ, Android Studio provides a flexible Gradle-based built system. expanded template support for Google Services and various device types, a rich layout editor with support for theme editing, as well as ProGuard and app-signing capabilities.

On top of that, Android Studio comes with Lint tools for assessing performance, usability, version compatibility and other related issues. The built-in support for Google Cloud Platform makes it easy for developers to integrate Google Cloud Messaging and App Engine.

With Android Studio’s helps you also have the option to build multiple variants and generate multiple APKs. The built-in live layout offers live coding and real-time app rendering while the Developer Console delivers optimization tips, referral tracking, assistance for translation, usage metrics and more.

Android Studio provides all the tools you need to start developing applications, including Android SDK tools for designing, testing and debugging you app, a version of the Android platform to help you compile your app, along with a version of the Android system image that enables you to run the mobile app in the emulator.

Thanks to the rich and powerful editor you can easily drag and drop UI components, preview layouts on different screen configurations and more.

You can find in-depth instructions on how to install the current release on top of an older installation on Android Studio’s latest release page.