002: Android Studio

In this episode of Fragmented, Donn and Kaushik talk about the official IDE for Android development – “Android Studio”. Why should you care about your IDE? Is Android Studio really open source? What are some of the advantages of using Android Studio? How can you customize and tweak Android Studio so you take your android development game to the next level? Listen to this episode and find out. The awesome picks for this episode are particularly awesome too.

Shownotes Android Studio (official IDE):

• Google announces Android Studio [Google I/O 2013]
• Developer frontpage – Android Studio is the official editor [developer.android.com]

“Open source-ness” of Android Studio:

• IntelliJ open source platform for building IDEs [jetbrains.org]
• Eclipse plugin ADT [developer.android.com]
• Build Android Studio from command line [tools.android.com]
• Jake Wharton’s u2020 Demo App

Environment customizations:

• Kaushik’s Android studio environment (codestyle, livetemplates, keymap etc) [github.com]
• Chris Kempson – original theme [chriskempson.com]

Annotation Magic:

• A look at Android support animations [anupcowkur.com]
• Support Annotations [tools.android.com]
• Contract Annotations [blog.jetbrains.com]
• Tools prefix:  Tools of the trade by Sebastiano Poggi

Learning Android Studio resources:

• Donn Felker Android Studio Tips:
  • Screencasts on Android Studio
  • Android Tools Book – Android Studio Chapter (FREE)
• Philippe Breault [developerphil.com]:
  • Android studio tips roundup #1
  • Android studio tips roundup #2
  • Android studio tips roundup #3
  • Android studio tips roundup #4
  • Android studio tips roundup #5

The most important things on the internet:

• Llamas in Arizona
• Blue Black White Gold dresses

Awesome picks:

• Stetho

Dan Lew’s RxJava Series

Rounded ImageView:

• Rounded Bitmap drawable usage[gist]
• Evelio blog post on different approaches to creating rounded image views
• Chris Banes For questions, comments or suggestions you can reach us at

@donnfelker and  @kaushikgopal