Integrated development environment for the Android platform
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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