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Upgrade a project to Android Studio 3.0

Upgrade a project to Android Studio 3.0 - Android Tutorial

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Upgrade a project to Android Studio 3.0

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- [Instructor] Android Studio 3.0 was released in late 2017, and it includes many great new features for development and tuning of Android apps. When you open an existing project in Studio 3, you'll be prompted to make certain changes to your Gradle build scripts, and other configuration files. I'm going to describe each of these changes and show you where the changes are made in each file, and then I'll also show you what you need to do if you want to target the latest SDK, API 27, for Android 8.1 Oreo. When you open an existing project in Android Studio 3, a number of prompts will appear, and if you accept them, a lot of these changes will be made automatically, but it's really useful to know exactly what the changes are. So as I opened the project in this branch, I said no to all those prompts, and I'll walk you through making the changes manually. First I'll go to my Gradle project file. This is where you declare the Gradle plug-in version. I most recently opened this project in…

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