1. Android Studio
vs
ADT(Eclipse)
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3. ADT?
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Android Development Tool
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Based on Eclipse
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Traditional Development Environment (a.k.a. Stable)
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http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

4. Android Studio(AS)?
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Introduced at Google I/O 2013
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Based on IntelliJ Community Edition
(http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/)
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Gradle build system
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Android Team tried to switch build system to gradle since Aug, 2013
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/build/+/45c898bfc42
ccc2e8dc635312358e85102a766ea
http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html

5. Previously on Android
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Build System
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Ant or Maven
Dependency management for Android Library Project
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Android Library Project?
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An Android library project is a development project that holds shared
Android source code and resources
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http://developer.android.com/tools/projects/index.html#LibraryProjects
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Directly import on project (Project is getting bigger)
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apklib via Maven

6. Why Android Studio(Gradle)?
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Plugins and other helping functions depend on your preference
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Remember, it’s EAP (means quite buggy)
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Google might stop developing ADT (Gradle system is OFFICIAL)
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Much faster, much smarter
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Cool layout preview feature supports
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Dependency management is fantastic
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Support AAR
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The binary distribution of an Android Library Project
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Flavoring Build Process
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https://developers.google.com/live/shows/478404424

7. Switching from ADT to AS
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To be honest, automatic exporting or importing are sucks
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Only works when the project structure is simple
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Maybe, you need to modify build.gradle yourself following the project
structure
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Current ADT exports the project as gradle format with build tools 0.4
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If you didn’t use UTF-8 in eclipse, a migration could be a disaster
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Starting a new project with AS would be a perfect choice.
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Beware that a keymap is completely different.
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Of course, you can change the keymap as Eclipse in Preference
Stay still in ADT when you are developing NDK

8. Extra : Genymotion
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Replace the useless Android Emulator
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Based on VirtualBox
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Super fast
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Support many device images naturally
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Both ADT and Android Studio have a Genymotion plugin
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http://www.genymotion.com/