From the course: Android Studio Essential Training 2020

What's new in this update

From the course: Android Studio Essential Training 2020

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What's new in this update

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- [Instructor] This course has been updated with the release of Android studio 4.1. The course was originally released in March of 2020, and it was based on Android studio 4.0. It covered a lot of the new features in studio with this release. But now just a few months later Android studio has been updated again. Version 4.1 has a number of new features and importantly, it has user interface changes. Many of these changes are due to Android studio upgrading so that it's now moved to a new release of intelligent idea as its foundation. Intelligent idea community edition, 2020.2, has some great new features and some changes to how it looks and behaves. One of the most visible aspects of this change is the addition of a new Window named Git. This Git tool Window is inherited from intelligent idea and it replaces the generic version control window that was used in older versions of Android studio. If you're working with Git in GitHub, instead of single version control Window you'll now see a Git Window and it'll look and behave a little bit differently by default. Instead of simply displaying all of your changed files and then popping up a dialog box when you want to commit your changes, the user interface now defaults to a non-modal window and it takes a little bit of figuring out exactly how to use it, but once you get it you'll see that the functionality is pretty much the same as it was before. It just looks different. I'll show you how to use that new Git tool window in the new videos that are a part of this update. There are also some new features. The Motion Editor was actually a part of Android studio 4.0, but the original course didn't cover it. There's now a video that describes how to get started with the Motion Editor to create simple animations using the motion layout component. And Android studio 4.1 adds a great new feature called the database inspector. It allows you to inspect and edit your SQLite databases that are packaged and managed with your Android apps, right from within Android studio. If you wanted to do this in the past you would have had to export your database files and then open them on your development computer with a separate software product. Now you can look at your databases and you can even edit them in real time, right there from within Android studio. I hope this update is useful as you use this new version of Android studio.

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