From the course: Programming for Non-Programmers: Android & Kotlin

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The Android Studio interface

The Android Studio interface

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The Android Studio interface

- The Android Studio interface can be overwhelming for new users. For that reason, let's take a quick interface tour to discuss the different parts of the Android Studio interface. At the top of the screen, you have the navigation bar, which shows you the path to the file that you're working in, and has some handy buttons for running your application and for working with things like the SDK manager, as we looked at in a previous movie, and the AVD manager, which stands Android Virtual Device. If you click on that button, you're shown your virtual devices. If you followed along with our setup of Android Studio, you should have a Nexus 5X device installed. If you want to install other virtual devices, you can do that by clicking the Create Virtual Device button. From there, you can choose all the settings for the devices that you want. You can have multiple different devices with different screen sizes and different aspect ratios so that you can test your apps on a wide array of…

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