Android Studio

Android Studio
Developer(s)Google, JetBrains
Stable release
2024.2.1[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 1 October 2024; 54 days ago (1 October 2024)
Preview release
2024.2.2 Canary 5[2] Edit this on Wikidata / 3 October 2024; 52 days ago (3 October 2024)
Written inJava, Kotlin and C++
Operating systemWindows, macOS, Linux (including ChromeOS)[3]
Size8.1 to 9.5 GB[3]
TypeIntegrated development environment (IDE)
LicenseBinaries: Freeware,[4] Source code:[5][6] Apache License (except SDK updates with proprietary license)[citation needed]
Websitedeveloper.android.com/studio

Android Studio is the official[7] integrated development environment (IDE) for Google's Android operating system, built on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA software and designed specifically for Android development.[8] It is available for download on Windows, macOS and Linux based operating systems.[9] 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. [10]

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.[11] The first stable build was released in December 2014, starting from version 1.0.[12] At the end of 2015, Google dropped support for Eclipse ADT, making Android Studio the only officially supported IDE for Android development.[13]

On May 7, 2019, Kotlin replaced Java as Google's preferred language for Android app development.[14] Java is still supported, as is C++.[15]

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