android-studio-ide-181.5056338-windows.exe includes an installer and the Android SDK command-line tools. If you don’t need or want to use Android Studio, you can download only the Android SDK ...

Get the emulator system images through the SDK Manager or download the Nexus device system images. Recompile your apps against Android 5.0 SDK, especially if you used any preview APIs.

Also detailed in Android Studio 2.0 is GPU Profiler, which allows easier profiling of OpenGL ES Android code. According to Google, this tool is in early preview, but is “very powerful,” not ...

Previously, you'd have to download Android Studio or the SDK to get these, which are a 400MB-1.6GB download. Even the smaller command line tools download is still 200-300MB.

Android Studio 2.0 will also include an Android emulator that is faster and features a new user interface. It isn’t included in today’s Canary release, but you can expect it to show up in a ...

Android Studio 3.6 introduces a small set of new features, polishes existing features, and addresses the usual bugs and performance improvements. The new release comes less than a week after ...

For testing an app with tablets and foldables, Google recommends using the 64-bit Android Emulator system images for the Pixel Tablet or Pixel Fold configurations, which are found in the latest ...

Android Studio, the integrated development environment (IDE) for Android app developers, is getting an AI upgrade, Google announced at its developer conference, Google I/O 2025.

NET developers use it often for apps that need frequent server updates; chat is the classic example. Now, SignalR has been made available to Android and Java developers via an SDK from Microsoft Open ...