sravaniandroid: Android Studio Installation and Setup

Install Android Studio and start your first Android project

System Requirements:

Windows

Microsoft® Windows® 8/7/Vista/2003 (32 or 64-bit)

2 GB RAM minimum, 4 GB RAM recommended

400 MB hard disk space + at least 1 G for Android SDK, emulator system images, and caches

1280 x 800 minimum screen resolution

Java Development Kit (JDK) 7

Optional for accelerated emulator: Intel® processor with support for Intel® VT-x, Intel® EM64T (Intel® 64), and Execute Disable (XD) Bit functionality

Mac OS X

Mac® OS X® 10.8.5 or higher, up to 10.9 (Mavericks)

2 GB RAM minimum, 4 GB RAM recommended

400 MB hard disk space

At least 1 GB for Android SDK, emulator system images, and caches

1280 x 800 minimum screen resolution

Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6

Java Development Kit (JDK) 7

Optional for accelerated emulator: Intel® processor with support for Intel® VT-x, Intel® EM64T (Intel® 64), and Execute Disable (XD) Bit functionality

On Mac OS, run Android Studio with Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 for optimized font rendering. You can then configure your project to use Java Development Kit (JDK) 6 or JDK 7.

Linux

GNOME or KDE desktop

GNU C Library (glibc) 2.11 or later

2 GB RAM minimum, 4 GB RAM recommended

400 MB hard disk space

At least 1 GB for Android SDK, emulator system images, and caches

1280 x 800 minimum screen resolution

Oracle® Java Development Kit (JDK) 7

First intstall JDK 7 or above version in any operating system as mentioned above . And if it is asking path setup the path .

Downloading Android Studio

You can download Android Studio from this link https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html

Android Studio will be download with .exe extension so just you need to double click on the file and continue with on Screen instructions.

To complete Installation it will take several minutes.

Once Setup has been completed you can start Android studio from programs.

After starting Android Studio it will be looks like below. And from below window select the option

Start a new Android Studio project as shown below

In next window type application name,company domain,package name and location of where you want store your project workspace and hit next button as shown below

In next window select minimun android sdk version and hit next button as shown below.If you take lower api level then it compatible to all devices but it have low features available,from API level15 and later,our app will run maximum in all devices that are active in play store.

In next window select Template as Blank Activity and hit next button as shown below.

Now give launcher,start or base activity name and it's layout name and action bar menu name then just hit finish button.

Now your Android Studio IDE will be open for the created project development and in that IDE just left side you can see project button just hit that project explorer will be open as show below

Now your studio is empty means it doest not contain any sdk platforms,so you need to install necessary packages from sdk manager to build the apk.

Follow the below steps to download necessary packages from SDK Manager.From Android Studio select Android SDK Manager short cut it will open SDK manager as follows.

By default Android SDK location takes the path and just select the API level if you want to see the sdk components just check mark the show package details and click on ok button.