As the official IDE, Android Studio has come along way since its introduction in 2014 and is now a powerful and (mostly) user-friendly interface for building Android apps. Here is an introduction ...

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.

Android app developers will also be able to take advantage of improvements like a redesigned CPU Profiler and the ability to use code completion in your code shrinking rules files.

Android Studio 2023.1.1 Hedgehog is the latest version of Google's official IDE, aimed at helping developers improve app performance.

These enhancements collectively underscore Android Studio’s commitment to providing developers with powerful tools, making the app development journey more intuitive, efficient, and feature-rich.

Following the preview at I/O 2025, Google is releasing an “Agent Mode” for Gemini in Android Studio. Agent Mode lets developers accomplish “complex development tasks” like generating unit ...

Google continues rolling out Gemini to different products as today the company announced that Android Studio's bot is getting upgraded with Gemini Pro.