Android Studio is the official IDE for Android application development,
based on
IntelliJ IDEA.
On top of the capabilities you expect from IntelliJ,
Android Studio offers:
- Flexible Gradle-based build system
- Build variants and multiple
apk file generation
- Code templates to help you build common app features
- Rich layout editor with support for drag and drop theme editing
lint tools to catch performance, usability, version compatibility, and other problems- ProGuard and app-signing capabilities
- Built-in support for
Google Cloud Platform,
making it easy to integrate Google Cloud Messaging and App Engine
- And much more
System Requirements
Windows
- Microsoft® Windows® 8/7/Vista/2003 (32 or 64-bit)
- 2 GB RAM minimum, 4 GB RAM recommended
- 400 MB hard disk space
- At least 1 GB for Android SDK, emulator system images, and caches
- 1280 x 800 minimum screen resolution
- Java Development Kit (JDK) 7
- Optional for accelerated emulator: Intel® processor with support for Intel® VT-x, Intel® EM64T
(Intel® 64), and Execute Disable (XD) Bit functionality
Mac OS X
- Mac® OS X® 10.8.5 or higher, up to 10.9 (Mavericks)
- 2 GB RAM minimum, 4 GB RAM recommended
- 400 MB hard disk space
- At least 1 GB for Android SDK, emulator system images, and caches
- 1280 x 800 minimum screen resolution
- Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6
- Java Development Kit (JDK) 7
- Optional for accelerated emulator: Intel® processor with support for Intel® VT-x, Intel® EM64T
(Intel® 64), and Execute Disable (XD) Bit functionality
On Mac OS, run Android Studio with Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 for optimized font
rendering. You can then configure your project to use Java Development Kit (JDK) 6 or JDK 7.
Linux
- GNOME or KDE desktop
- GNU C Library (glibc) 2.15 or later
- 2 GB RAM minimum, 4 GB RAM recommended
- 400 MB hard disk space
- At least 1 GB for Android SDK, emulator system images, and caches
- 1280 x 800 minimum screen resolution
- Oracle® Java Development Kit (JDK) 7
Tested on Ubuntu® 14.04, Trusty Tahr (64-bit distribution capable of running
32-bit applications).
