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Android Studio

Android Studio
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Developer(s) Google
Stable release
2.2.3 / December 6, 2016; 52 days ago (2016-12-06)
Preview release
2.3 Canary 2 / November 21, 2016; 2 months ago (2016-11-21)
Repository android-review.googlesource.com
Development status Stable
Written in Java
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
License Apache 2.0
Website developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

Android Studio is the officialintegrated development environment (IDE) for Android platform development.

It was announced on May 16, 2013 at the Google I/O conference. Android Studio is freely available under the Apache License 2.0.

Android Studio was in early access preview stage starting from version 0.1 in May 2013, then entered beta stage starting from version 0.8 which was released in June 2014. The first stable build was released in December 2014, starting from version 1.0.

Based on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA software, Android Studio is designed specifically for Android development. It is available for download on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, and replaced Eclipse Android Development Tools (ADT) as Google's primary IDE for native Android application development.

New features are expected to be rolled out with each release of Android Studio. The following features are provided in the current stable version:


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