Building your Android app If you followed along in Part 2, you’ve already loaded your source code and resource files into your Android Studio project.

Android Studio makes things very easy. As soon as you create a new project, it will be populated with the very basic code and setup necessary to print “Hello World” to the screen.

If you’re new to Android Studio, this tutorial series will get you started. I’ll briefly introduce the Android development platform, then show you how to download, install, and run the software.

Instant Run is enabled by default on newly created projects and it can be turned on for existing apps in the project settings at Build, Execution, Deployment -> Instant Run.

Google yesterday bumped up its official IDE for Android development to version 2.2, adding support for the company's new mobile OS, Nougat 7.0, along with a new layout editor and many other ...