Android Studio
Android Studio is the official integrated development environment (IDE) for Google's Android operating system, built on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA software and designed specifically for Android development. It is available for download on Windows, macOS and Linux based operating systems. It is a replacement for the Eclipse Android Development Tools (E-ADT) as the primary IDE for native Android application development. Android Studio is licensed under the Apache license but it ships with some SDK updates that are under a non-free license, making it not open source.
Android Studio Chipmunk running on macOS | |
| Developer(s) | Google, JetBrains |
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| Stable release | |
| Preview release | Hedgehog (2023.1.1) Canary 15 (July 31, 2023) [±] |
| Repository | |
| Written in | JavaScript, Kotlin and C++ |
| Operating system | Windows, macOS, Linux (including ChromeOS) |
| Size | 8.1 to 9.5 GB |
| Type | Integrated development environment (IDE) |
| License | Binaries: Freeware, Source code: Apache License (However, it ships with some SDK updates that are under a non-free License through its AUR packager. Making it propietary.) |
| Website | developer |
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. The first stable build was released in December 2014, starting from version 1.0. At the end of 2015, Google dropped support for Eclipse ADT, making Android Studio the only officially supported IDE for Android development.
On May 7, 2019, Kotlin replaced Java as Google's preferred language for Android app development. Java is still supported, as is C++.