An integrated development environment (IDE) provides facilities to computer programmers for software development. It consists of a source code editor, builds automation tools, and a debugger. The aim of the IDE is to reduce the configuration necessary to piece together multiple development utilities.
The android application development process has become easier with the advancement of the new technologies. There are many considerations that are taken into account before developing an application.
After the release of Android 9 “Pie” here comes a Pie-Friendly to the Google Android IDE. The new features include the support for Android Pie, it includes the new Android App bundle format i.e. Android Jetpack & Android Slices.
What’s New Assistant: It introduces the new assistant that informs you about the latest changes in Android Studio, it automatically detects that there is new information to show and the assistant opens when you start the Android Studio after the fresh installation.
Android Jetpack: The main objective of Android Jetpack is to accelerate Android development with tools, components and gives the suggestion to eliminate repetitive task. It also helps in building high quality and testable apps.
Android App Bundle: It is a new upload format that includes all your apps resources and compiled code. In Google Play, there is a new app serving model called Dynamic Delivery uses your app bundle to generate and serve optimized APKs for each user’s device configuration, so that they can only download the code and resources they need to run the app. There is no need to sign, build and manage multiple APKs.
Android Slices: It provides a new way to embed portions of your app’s functionality into the other user interface surfaces on Android. Android Studio 3.2 includes a built-in template to extend your app with the new slice provider APIs, also provide new links check to ensure that you are following the best practices while constructing the Slices.
Android Studio 3.2: It is a major release that includes a variety of new features & improvements. Android Studio includes a version of Kotlin 1.2.61 that fixes a bug that can cause Android Studio to hang. Kotlin 1.2.71.
Kotlin 1.2.61: Android Studio 3.2 bundles Kotlin 1.2.61. The Android Studio IDE has been updated with improvements given by IntelliJ IDEA through the 2018.1.6 release. IntelliJ IDEA 2018.1.6 gives a bunch of bug fixes :
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Fixed a throwable exception
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Fixed the issue that caused the go-to Class pop-ups to leak via the native window and focus traversal policy
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Сorrected the treatment of a Spring @Nullable annotation
