It was first made available in May 2013, again at Google’s I/O event.Īndroid Studio is an Integrated Studio Environment or IDE it provides a coding environment and set of tools that engineers can use to develop Android applications.īefore its release in 2013 Android developers used Eclipse as their main IDE but at the 2014 announcement and since, Google has been pretty explicit that it wants Android developers to use Android Studio as their development environment of choice.Ĭoders can still use Eclipse via the Android Developer Tool (ADT) plugin but Google have said on their Android Developer Tools page:

Google released the Android Studio 1.0 beta version at the annual I/O event in the US on the 25 th of June this year. Google wants the industry to believe they’re thinking about the coder experience when they’re app building in Android Studio.

Any brief for an Android development team will place a strong emphasis on UX or customer experience because there’s a pretty clear market imperative for their code being user-centric.īut who thinks about UX for Android engineers when they’re using app development tools?

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