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- [Instructor] Android Studio is based on IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition, a popular Java IDE. The basic layout is exactly the same as IntelliJ, but there are additional tools specifically for Android. In both IntelliJ and in Android Studio, the core window is called the Editor Window and it can have multiple tabs so that you can look at multiple files. You can double click on any of those tabs to expand it to full screen and there are other full screen options available under the View menu. You can choose the Full Screen mode and then you can get out of that by going back to the same option on the menu, or by pressing the associated keyboard shortcut. There's also Distraction Free mode, which gets rid of a lot more elements of the interface. Once again, I'll exit that. And Presentation mode, which can be used when you're doing presentations at conferences or in user groups. Many of the features of Android Studio are available in multiple places. You can find certain features on the…

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