From the course: Android Development: Understanding Intents

Getting set up - Android Tutorial

From the course: Android Development: Understanding Intents

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Getting set up

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- [Instructor] Let's get the development environment properly setup for the course. First, I'm going to assume that you already have Android Studio installed and that you've checked for updates and installed any of those that were available. If you don't have Android Studio installed and need to learn how to do that, check out the Android Studio Essential Training courses introductory chapter. If you have Android Studio installed and updated, then place the exercise files for this course somewhere on your computer where they'll be easy to access. Now I've put my folder here on the desktop, but you can place yours wherever you like. Then start up Android Studio, and make sure you have a virtual device setup for use with the emulator. If you'd rather use a physical device to do the exercises in this course, that's fine as well, but I'm going to to be using the emulator for this course since a physical device isn't really needed. So down here in the configure menu, if you choose the AVD Manager, you can see that I've already got a virtual device setup for my machine. It's using API 28, which is Android 9 and I'm setting it up as a Pixel 3 XL. So go ahead and start your emulator and have it running while you're going through the various videos in the course, so that you won't need to restart it each time. Once you have Android Studio installed and updated, the exercise files placed where you want them, and a virtual device created and ready to go, then you can proceed with the course.

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