Before Android Studio Programmers were using eclipse for developing android app with Android Developer Tools (ADT) a plugin for Eclipse that provides GUI-based access to many of the command-line Android SDK tools.
when android studio is Officially launched they stopped support for The Eclipse ADT plugin.
The first stable build of Android Studio was released in December 2014. Latest version at the time of writing this post is 2.2.3
Check System Requirements For Android studio
Windows
- Microsoft® Windows® 7/8/10 (32- or 64-bit)
- 3 GB RAM minimum, 8 GB RAM recommended; plus 1 GB for the Android Emulator
- 2 GB of available disk space minimum,
- 4 GB Recommended (500 MB for IDE + 1.5 GB for Android SDK and emulator system image)
- 1280 x 800 minimum screen resolution
- For accelerated emulator: 64-bit operating system and Intel® processor with support for Intel® VT-x, Intel® EM64T (Intel® 64), and Execute Disable (XD) Bit functionality
Mac
- Mac® OS X® 10.10 (Yosemite) or higher, up to 10.12 (macOS Sierra)
- 3 GB RAM minimum, 8 GB RAM recommended; plus 1 GB for the Android Emulator
- 2 GB of available disk space minimum,
- 4 GB Recommended (500 MB for IDE + 1.5 GB for Android SDK and emulator system image)
- 1280 x 800 minimum screen resolution
Linux
- GNOME or KDE desktop
- Tested on Ubuntu® 12.04, Precise Pangolin (64-bit distribution capable of running 32-bit applications)
- 64-bit distribution capable of running 32-bit applications
- GNU C Library (glibc) 2.19 or later
- 3 GB RAM minimum, 8 GB RAM recommended; plus 1 GB for the Android Emulator
- 2 GB of available disk space minimum,
- 4 GB Recommended (500 MB for IDE + 1.5 GB for Android SDK and emulator system image)
- 1280 x 800 minimum screen resolution
- For accelerated emulator: Intel® processor with support for Intel® VT-x, Intel® EM64T (Intel® 64), and Execute Disable (XD) Bit functionality, or AMD processor with support for AMD Virtualization™ (AMD-V™)
you can download android studio from official site for free.
Lets see how to install Android Studio on Windows step by step
Installing Android Studio
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Open android studio setup
Click Next to continue
Select all components to install then click Next
On Licence Agreement click I Agree
if you want, change Installation location of Android Studio and Android SDK then click Next
Click Install
Setup will install android studio and extract SDK
when completed click Next
Select Start android studio then Finish
As a first time it may ask you to import setting from previous version of android studio. Select i do not want to import then Click OK
Android Studio Loading Screen
Android setup guide wizard Shown for first time click next
Select Standard as we don’t want to customize Settings click Next
It will check for SDK updates click finish
It will download updates
when updates installed Completely click Finish
Android Studio is now Installed Successfully and ready to use. Click on start a new Android Studio project
Type Aplication name you want here i typed First App. type company name or keep default. package name automatically generated from company domain and application name. every app must have unique package id. click next
Select Minimum version under phone and tablet. not sure which to select click help me to choose
if you select ice cream sandwich it will support 97% of all available devices. click Ok
I selected gingerbread api 10 for 100% device compatibility. click next
Type of activity/Screen. select empty click Next
Activity name. default is Main Activity click Next
wait till project is loading
Click project on left sidbar -> expand app ->click res ->click layout you can see our activity_main.xml here. double click to open. you can see screen of our app with hello word text. let’s run it. click run button
Select deployment target. no device listed. so click create a new virtual device
select hardware profile from list. i selected Nexus 4. screen size 4.7 resolution 768×1280. click Next
Select system image. I selected nougat api level 24. click Next
Give name for avd click Finish
Now avd is listed select it and click Ok
Wait emulator is starting
Emulator started. our app will get install automatically and start
WOW !!! our first app is now opened.
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