All You Need to Know About Android Studio 1.3
This year at the Google I/O Android released the Android Studio 1.3, the biggest feature release for the year. For developers, this will offer a whole new avenue of features that will help them create apps offering incredible experience. It includes a whole new memory profiler, testing support as well as editing and debugging support specifically for C++. It will be interesting to pay a visit to the new features that come with Android Studio 1.3
Improved Performance & Testing Tools
Android Studio 1.3 comes with a whole new range of performance and testing tools that will offer you variety of ways to work through the contents of your code, and give out an enhanced version of your app.Android Memory Viewer
You can easily capture and analyze the memory snapshots in the Android HPROF format with this new Android StudioAllocation Tracker
Earlier, you used to get a tabular representation of the app memory allocations. But, with this new studio version, you will also get a pictorial representation of the same, thus giving you a better idea and understanding.Tests within Modules for APK
With this new feature release, you get more flexibility. You can now conduct app testing while placing the code tests in separate modules, and use the new test plugin to perform the test. While you are at it, you don’t need the Gradle plugin 1.3 to perform testing of your app projectsCode and SDK Management
Managing your code as well as Android SDK becomes easier with the release of this new feature Android Studio 1.3Inline Code Annotations
There is a new app permissions model introduced with this feature release. There is an inline code annotation support that helps manage this new model. Here’s an example of how this permissions model works public abstract class Context {
/**
*…
* In this method the caller needs to hold the permission
* {@link android.Manifest.permission#SET_WALLPAPER}.
*/
@RequiresPermission (Manifest.permission.SET_WALLPAPER)
public void setWallpaper (Bitmap bitmap) throws IOException {…}
This is an example of how the annotations model works for this new feature release
Data Binding Feature
You can reduce the boilerplate code with this feature. You can create declarative layouts and bind the application logic within this layout. Here’s an example of how this feature works<TextView
android: layout_width = “wrap_content”
android: layout_height = “wrap_content”
android:text = “@{user.lastName}”
android:visibility = “@{user.isAdult ? View.VISIBLE : View.GONE}”/>
