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Mastering Gradle

You're reading from Mastering Gradle Master the technique of developing, migrating, and building automation using Gradle

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783981366

Length 284 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Gradle

Concepts

Web Utilities

Author (1):

Mitra

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Mastering Gradle

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Getting Started with Gradle FREE CHAPTER

2. Groovy Essentials for Gradle

3. Managing Task

4. Plugin Management

5. Dependency Management

6. Working with Gradle

7. Continuous Integration

8. Migration

9. Deployment

10. Building Android Applications with Gradle

Index

Creating Android project using Android Studio

We will start by creating a sample Android application, which will display Hello World when you open it on a mobile device. You can use Eclipse with the Android Development Tool (ADT) plugin or Android Studio, which has been released by Google. Android Studio is based on IntelliJ IDEA and it is now the most preferred IDE for building Android applications. Both Eclipse with ADT and Android studio setup instructions can be found at http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html.

In this chapter, we will use Android Studio for application development. Once you have downloaded and installed Android Studio on your system, start Android Studio. Android Studio also installs Android SDK, which is required to compile and execute Android applications. To create an application, navigate to File | New Project. You will see the following screen:

Figure 10.1

Click on the Next button and follow the steps. On the activity screen, select Blank Activity:

Figure 10.2

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Authors (1)

Mitra

Mitra

Mainak Mitra is a software developer who has rich experience in enterprise software development and automation frameworks. He is an electrical engineer from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He is currently working for an online gaming company. Prior to this, he worked for various product development companies, such as Yahoo Inc., CA Technologies. He can be contacted at [email protected].

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