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Android Studio supplies you an built-in growth atmosphere (IDE) to develop, take a look at, debug, and bundle Android apps that may attain billions of customers throughout a various set of Android units. Final month we reached an enormous milestone for the product: 10 years for the reason that Android Studio 1.0 release reached the steady channel. You may hear a bit extra about its historical past within the most recent episode of Android Developers Backstage, or watch a few of the crew’s favourite moments: 🎉
After we got down to develop Android Studio we began with these three rules:
First, we wished to construct and launch a whole IDE, not only a plugin. Earlier than Android Studio, customers needed to go obtain a JDK, then obtain Eclipse, then configure it with an replace heart to level to Android, set up the Eclipse plugin for Android, after which configure that plugin to level to an Android SDK set up. Not solely did we wish every little thing to work out-of-the-box, however we additionally wished to have the ability to configure and enhance every little thing: from having an built-in dependency administration system to providing code inspections that had been related to Android app builders to having a single place to report bugs.
Second, we wished to construct it on high of an actively maintained, open-sourced, and best-of-breed Java programing language IDE. Not too lengthy earlier than releasing Android Studio, we had all used IntelliJ and felt it was superior from a code enhancing perspective.
And third, we wished to not solely present a construct system that was higher suited to Android app growth, however to additionally allow this construct system to work persistently from each from the command line and from contained in the IDE. This was essential as a result of within the earlier instrument chain, we discovered that there have been discrepancies in conduct and functionality between the in-IDE builds with Eclipse, and CI builds with Ant.
This led to the discharge of Android Studio, together with these highlights:
Listed below are some nostalgic screenshots from that first model of Android Studio:
Android Studio has come a good distance since these early days, however our mission of empowering Android builders with wonderful instruments continues to be our focus.
Let’s hear from some crew members throughout Android, JetBrains, and Gradle as they replicate on this milestone and the way far the ecosystem has come since then.
Android Studio crew
“Contained in the Android crew, engineers who did not work on apps had the selection between utilizing Eclipse and utilizing IntelliJ, and most of them selected IntelliJ. We knew that it was the gold normal for Java growth (and nonetheless is, all these years later.) So we requested ourselves: if that is what builders favor when given a selection, would not this be for our customers as properly?
And the nice and cozy reception once we unveiled the alpha at I/O in 2013 made it clear that it was the precise selection.”
– Tor Norbye, Engineering Director of Android Studio at Google
“We had a imaginative and prescient of making a really Built-in Improvement Atmosphere for Android app growth as a substitute of a set of associated instruments. In our earlier working mannequin, we had contributions of Android instruments from a variety of frameworks and UX flows that didn’t 100% work properly end-to-end. The transfer to the open-sourced JetBrains IntelliJ platform enabled the Google crew to tie instruments collectively in a considerate manner with Android Studio, plus it allowed others to contribute in a extra seamless manner. Lastly, wanting again on the final 10 years, I’m pleased with the partnership with Jetbrains and Gradle, plus the neighborhood of contributors to deliver the very best suite of instruments to Android app builders.”
– Jamal Eason, Director of Product Administration of Android Studio at Google
JetBrains
“Google selecting IntelliJ because the platform to construct Android Studio was a really thrilling second for us at JetBrains. It allowed us to strengthen and construct on the platform even additional, and paved the best way for additional collaboration in different tasks comparable to Kotlin.”
– Hadi Hariri, VP of Program Administration at JetBrains
Gradle
“Android Studio’s tenth anniversary marks a decade of unimaginable progress for Android builders. We’re proud that Gradle Construct Software has continued to be a foundational a part of the Android toolchain, enabling thousands and thousands of Android builders to construct their apps quicker, extra elegantly, and at scale.”
– Hans Dockter, creator of Gradle Construct Software and CEO/Founding father of Gradle Inc.
“Our long-standing strategic partnership with Google and our mutual dedication to bettering the developer expertise continues to affect thousands and thousands of builders. We look ahead to persevering with that journey for a few years to come back.”
– Piotr Jagielski, VP of Engineering, Gradle Construct Software
Final however not least, we wish to thanks to your suggestions and help during the last decade. Android Studio wouldn’t be the place it’s immediately with out the lively neighborhood of builders who’re utilizing it to construct Android apps for his or her communities and the world and offering enter on how we are able to make it higher every day.
As we head into this new yr, we’ll be bringing Gemini into extra facets of Android Studio to help you across the development lifecycle to construct high quality apps quicker. We’ll attempt to make it simpler and extra seamless to construct, take a look at, and deploy your apps with Jetpack Compose throughout the vary of kind components. We’re pleased with what we launch, however we all the time have room to enhance within the evolving cellular ecosystem. Due to this fact, high quality and stability of the IDE is our high precedence so to be as productive as attainable.
We look ahead to persevering with to empower you with nice instruments and enhancements as we take Android Studio ahead into the following decade. 🚀 We additionally welcome you to be part of our developer neighborhood on LinkedIn, Medium, YouTube, or X.
