Chapter 1. Getting Started with Android Development

In this chapter, we will go through all the steps required to start developing Android devices. We have to be aware that Android is an evolving platform and so are its development tools. We will show how to download and install Android Studio and how to create a new project and run it on either an emulator or a real device. We will spend some time going through some additional components that we will use in later chapters.

• Installing Android Studio
• Creating a sample project
• Additional components