JetBrains's Android Studio’s 10 year anniversary
I remember the major change which has taken place since I started learning android is Android Studio migration from Eclipse. Android Studio’s 10 year anniversary.
Watch official youtube : Android Studio’s 10th birthday: our favorite moments!
In December 2014, Google launched Android Studio, Google's official Integrated Development Environment (IDE) based on IntelliJ and it discontinued the Android Developer Tools (ADT) plugin for Eclipse, which means it’s time to leave eclipse behind.
Fortunately, we had simple solution to migrate, Android Studio offered a better experience for Android developers and its migration functionality does most of the work for you.
Open Android Studio and click on the option: Import project (Eclipse ADT, Gradle, etc)
Before Android studio
1. users had to go download a JDK, then download Eclipse, then configure it with an update center to point to Android, install the Eclipse plugin for Android, and then configure that plugin to point to an Android SDK install.
2. User has to build it on top of an actively maintained, open-sourced, and best-of-breed Java programing language IDE. Not too long before releasing Android Studio, we had all used IntelliJ and felt it was superior from a code editing perspective.
3. User has to not only provide a build system that was better suited for Android app development, but to also enable this build system to work consistently from both from the command line and from inside the IDE. This was important because in the previous tool chain, we found that there were discrepancies in behaviour and capability between the in-IDE builds with Eclipse, and CI builds with Ant.
This led to the release of Android Studio, including these highlights:
First android Studio
JetBrains
“Google choosing IntelliJ as the platform to build Android Studio was a very exciting moment for us at JetBrains. It allowed us to strengthen and build on the platform even further, and paved the way for further collaboration in other projects such as Kotlin.”
– Hadi Hariri, VP of Program Management at JetBrains
Gradle
“Android Studio's 10th anniversary marks a decade of incredible progress for Android developers. We are proud that Gradle Build Tool has continued to be a foundational part of the Android toolchain, enabling millions of Android developers to build their apps faster, more elegantly, and at scale.”
– Hans Dockter, creator of Gradle Build Tool and CEO/Founder of Gradle Inc.
“Our long-standing strategic partnership with Google and our mutual commitment to improving the developer experience continues to impact millions of developers. We look forward to continuing that journey for many years to come.”
– Piotr Jagielski, VP of Engineering, Gradle Build Tool
Android Studio was announced on May 16, 2013, at the Google I/O conference. It was in early access preview stage starting from version 0.1 in May 2013, then entered beta stage starting from version 0.8 which was released in June 2014. The first stable build was released in December 2014, starting from version 1.0.
The following features are provided in the current stable version:
- Gradle-based build support
- Android-specific refactoring and quick fixes
- Lint tools to catch performance, usability, version compatibility and other problems
- ProGuard integration and app-signing capabilities
- Template-based wizards to create common Android designs and components
- A rich layout editor that allows users to drag-and-drop UI components, option to preview layouts on multiple screen configurations.
- Support for building Android Wear apps
- Android automative.
- Android Television.
- Built-in support for Google Cloud Platform, enabling integration with Firebase Cloud Messaging (Earlier 'Google Cloud Messaging') and Google App Engine.
- Android Virtual Device (Emulator) to run and debug apps in the Android studio.
When you open android studio today
Android Studio supports all the same programming languages of IntelliJ (and CLion) e.g. Java, C++, and more with extensions, such as Go.
Android Studio 3.0 or later supports Kotlin, and "Android Studio includes support for using a number of Java 11+ APIs without requiring a minimum API level for your app".
External projects backport some Java 9 features.
While IntelliJ states that Android Studio supports all released Java versions.
The first stable release of Android Studio was version 1.0
Below list shows list of android studio versions came before Gemini.
Version | Release date |
1.0 | December 2014 |
1.1 | February 2015 |
1.2 | April 2015 |
1.3 | July 2015 |
1.4 | September 2015 |
1.5 | November 2015 |
2.0 | April 2016 |
2.1 | April 2016 |
2.2 | September 2016 |
2.3 | March 2017 |
3.0 | October 2017 |
3.1 | March 2018 |
3.2 | September 2018 |
3.3 | January 2019 |
3.4 | April 2019 |
3.5 | August 2019 |
3.6 | February 2020 |
4.0 | May 2020 |
4.1 | Oct 2020 |
4.2 | May 2021 |
Arctic Fox (2020.3.1) | July 2021 |
Bumblebee (2021.1.1) | January 2022 |
Chipmunk (2021.2.1) | May 2022 |
Dolphin (2021.3.1) | September 2022 |
Electric Eel (2022.1.1) | January 2023 |
Flamingo (2022.2.1) | April 2023 |
Giraffe (2022.3.1) | July 2023 |
Hedgehog (2023.1.1) | November 2023 |
Iguana (2023.2.1) | February 2024 |
Jellyfish (2023.3.1) | April 2024 |
Koala (2024.1.1) | June 2024 |
Koala Feature Drop (2024.1.2) | August 2024 |
Ladybug (2024.2.1) | September 2024 |
Meerkat (2024.3.1) | In Preview version |
Refernce:
https://developer.android.com/studio/releases
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Studio
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/01/android-studios-10-year-anniversary.html
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