Basic think about Android studio

Android Studio is the official Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Android app development, based on IntelliJ IDEA . On top of IntelliJ's powerful code editor and developer tools, Android Studio offers even more features that enhance your productivity when building Android apps, such as :

flexible Gradle-based build system

fast and feature-rich emulator

unified environment where you can develop for all Android devices

Instant Run to push changes to your running app without building a new APK

Code templates and GitHub integration to help you build common app features and import sample code

Extensive testing tools and frameworks

Lint tools to catch performance, usability, version compatibility, and other problem

C++ and NDK support

Built-in support for Google Cloud Platform, making it easy to integrate Google Cloud Messaging and App Engine