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Android Studio

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounCore term

In software engineering, Android Studio means: Google's official development environment for Android apps, based on IntelliJ IDEA, with a code editor, the Android Emulator, profilers and build tools.

In Turkish: Android Studio

How it is used

Android developers open, build and run projects in Android Studio, manage virtual devices, read Logcat and work with the Gradle build system. Unlike Xcode, it runs on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Example sentences

  1. Open the project in Android Studio and sync Gradle first.

  2. Android Studio's profiler shows memory going up every time we open the gallery.

Common collocations

  • open in Android Studio
  • Android Studio profiler
  • update Android Studio
  • Android Studio project
  • AndroidGoogle's mobile operating system, used by many phone makers such as Samsung, Xiaomi and Google itself. Its apps are mainly written in Kotlin or Java.
  • KotlinA modern programming language created by JetBrains that Google recommends as the main language for Android development; it works alongside Java code.
  • emulatorA program that copies the hardware and software of a mobile device on a computer, so you can run and test an app without a real phone.
  • XcodeApple's development environment for writing, building, testing and publishing apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and other Apple platforms. It runs only on macOS.
  • SDKShort for software development kit: a package of libraries, tools and documentation that helps developers build on a platform or use a service.

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