Android Studio was announced on May 16, 2013, at the
Google I/O conference. It 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.[10] The first stable build was released in December 2014, starting from version 1.0.[11] At the end of 2015, Google dropped support for Eclipse ADT, making Android Studio the only officially supported IDE for Android development.[12]
On May 7, 2019,
Kotlin replaced
Java as Google's preferred language for Android app development.[13] Java is still supported, as is
C++.[14]
Features
The following features are provided in the current stable version:[15][16]
Built-in support for Google Cloud Platform, enabling integration with Firebase Cloud Messaging (Earlier 'Google Cloud Messaging') and Google App Engine[18]
Android Virtual Device (Emulator) to run and debug apps in the Android studio.
Android Studio supports all the same programming languages of
IntelliJ (and
CLion) e.g.
Java,
C++, and more with extensions, such as
Go;[19] and Android Studio 3.0 or later supports
Kotlin,[20] and "all Java 7 language features and a subset of Java 8 language features that vary by platform version."[21] External projects
backport some Java 9 features.[22] While IntelliJ states that
Android Studio supports all released Java versions, and Java 12, it's not clear to what level Android Studio supports
Java versions up to Java 12 (the documentation mentions partial Java 8 support). At least some new language features up to Java 12 are usable in Android.[23]
Once an app has been compiled with Android Studio, it can be published on the
Google Play Store. The application has to be in line with the Google Play Store
developer content policy.
Version history
The following is a list of Android Studio's major releases:[24]
AMD processor on Windows: Android Studio 3.2 or higher and Windows 10 April 2018 release or higher for
Windows Hypervisor Platform (WHPX) functionality.
For an attached webcam to work with Android 8.1 (API level 27) and higher system images, it must have the capability to capture 720p frames.[38]
^"Android's Java 9, 10, 11, and 12 Support". Jake Wharton. November 27, 2018. Retrieved February 23, 2019. Hopefully by the time Java 12 is actually released D8 will have implemented desugaring for Java 11's nestmates. Otherwise the pain of being stuck on Java 10 will go up quite a bit!