We can have multiple virtual devices with different versions of Android OS running on it. How to set up a Virtual Device in Android Studio?Ī virtual device is some space in the memory that functions as a phone. If this is the first time you are developing apps with Android Studio, this is the screen you will get. Here, we have to set up our virtual device. For now, click on the run button, and that will take us to an AVD manager. All buttons, text fields, textviews, imageviews, and many more things are available to choose from. On the palette, we have all the elements available to design our app. Focus only on the things that matter for now Here’s the screen I want you to focus on.

So, for now, I want you to focus on only the items we will be using. This is where most people turn back because there’s too much information on one screen. Looking at the interface like this can be quite overwhelming. Once all processes are completed, you’ll get the Android Studio Interface. It is normal for some systems to take more than a minute to finish all processes. When you click Finish, Android Studio will start building your app. Android Studio will provide default values and. Here all we are doing is describing the activity we have selected. This is why all our projects will start with a blank activity.

By selecting an empty activity, all other activities can be included. Each activity has two files, the XML (.xml) file to design how it looks and the Java (.java) file to write code in that activity. Like how websites have different pages, Android apps have Activities. In this section of the project configuration, we choose an Activity to be preloaded.Īn activity can be defined as a page on the Android app. In that, we’ll use API 21: Android 5.0 (Lollipop).Ĭlick Next to go to the next screen. For the remainder of this course, we will be using only Phone and Tablet apps.

Having a lower API level will target a higher number of devices. Here, we are adjusting the settings of the devices our Android app will run on.įor each major update of the Android OS, the API level is incremented.

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