Saturday, May 18, 2013

First time with Android Studio

Three days ago, Google IO event happened, they introduced a new IDE for Android developer. It's sound exciting. Now, I have time to check it.
You can download it from
There is nothing more to say about the installation, it's very easy. But maybe you miss the small but important note in this page, it'll make your Android Studio silent when you want it run :).
Remember this note
Add new system variable JAVA_HOME that points to your JDK folder, for exampleC:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_21
 Now, you can enjoy with it, our new "toy".
After read about features of Android Studio, except using new project format "gradle", there are no big changes with old IDE for Android(Eclipse + ADT).

Want to find something new, I looked around the IDE window, and stopped in VCS menu. It's seem the Google integrated the version control tool into IDE. This is a good thing. I checked it and it worked well with  Google Code. I assump that you already know about Google Code :D
I will show the steps to do this

1. First you need create an empty project on Google Code(I have not tried with not empty project) with version control type is Subversion. Go to "Source" and copy the "check out" link of the project.

2. Open Android Studio and create/open a project.

3. Open VCS menu -> Import into version control -> Import into subversion

4. In new popup menu, click on "+" icon to add server link, enter the link from step one, then click "Import" and waiting.

5. After process finish, your source code is placed in Google Code

You can easily check out an existing project.

Android Studio also allows work with another version control systems: Github, Git, Mercurial

There are some new features, I will introduce later.

Thanks,