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Android Studio Overview

Android Studio is the official IDE for Android application development, based on IntelliJ IDEA. On top of the capabilities you expect from IntelliJ, Android Studio offers:

• Flexible Gradle-based build system.
• Build variants and multiple apk file generation.
• Code templates to help you build common app features.
• Rich layout editor with support for drag and drop theme editing.
• lint tools to catch performance, usability, version compatibility and other problems.
• ProGuard and app-signing capabilities.
• Built-in support for Google Cloud Platform, making it easy to integrate Google Cloud Messaging and App Engine.
• And much more.