Thursday 12 May 2016

Google launched Android Studio 2.1 to support Android N development

Google has recently launched the latest version, Android Studio 2.1 integrated development environment (IDE). It offers support to build applications for its Android N Developer Preview versions for faster Instant Run and Preview. Earlier, in this year, Google has launched its first Android N Developer Preview followed by another Preview.

The Android Studio 2.1 version is supported by Linux, Mac and Windows. It can be downloaded from Android.com/SDK. The existing users of Android Studio can find this new version in their navigation menu:

Visit Check for Update [Windows/Linux] under Help Menu and Check for Check for Updates on [OS X] under Android Studio.

The developers can now use the Preview SDK latest versions to work on Java, try new Jack Complier and use their hands on the official Android Emulator which also runs N Developer Preview Emulator System Images. Due to the availability of the new Jack compiler, developers can perform operations like compile-time type annotations, lambdas, intersection types, method references on all new versions of Android platform. The Android N version features only repeatable annotations and static methods.

Any change running on an emulator or your device can be easily notified by the Instant Run which streamlines the workflow. Using this, the user can easily identify the changes running “in a near instant”. This will enable the developer to code continuously and run the app. When the Instant Run is used, then it will analyze the changes and identify how a new code can be deployed in the quickest way. Instant Run is compatible with any Android device or an emulator running API 14 or higher version.

With the incremental Java compilation, Instant Run can quickly update incremental changes. Meaning that, a change in a single line of code does not require all Java sources of that module to be recompiled. Also, class files will not be converted to dex files to create dex processes separately. For this feature, user requires increasing Gradle daemon from 1GB to minimum 2GB.

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