ADB (Android Debug Bridge)Īndroid Studio includes the Android Debug Bridge, which is a command-line tool or “bridge” of communication between Android devices and other computers that can be used during development and the overall debugging and QA process.īy connecting an Android device to the development PC and entering a series of terminal commands, a developer is able to make modifications as needed to both devices. It is free to download and is supported not only by Google, but also by a large and actively engaged community of Android developers. It replaced – or should we say it eclipsed? – Eclipse Android Development Tools (ADT) as the primary IDE for native Android app development.Īndroid Studio provides code editing, debugging, and testing tools all within an easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface. Google created Android Studio back in 2013.

Android StudioĪs the official integrated development environment for all Android applications, Android Studio always seems to top the list of preferred tools for developers. Here are the top 20 favorite tools currently being used for Android application development.

There are a few Android development solutions that tend to show up over and over again on Android developers’ “favorites” lists. If you’ve already learned the pros and cons of developing for Android from our dedicated article, you will be interested in this topic as well.Īndroid developers are able to churn out all these apps much faster and more efficiently thanks to a profusion of sophisticated, integrated development environments (IDEs) as well as other time-saving tools and applications. Given that there are way more Android mobile devices on the market today than any other operating system, the demand for apps and experienced Android application developers is only going to continue to increase in the future. That’s higher than the Apple App Store’s 2.2 million and Microsoft Windows’ 669,000 available apps. This is a guest story by Sydney Stone, a writer for a software development company iTechArt.Īccording to Statista, the Google Play store had over 2.8 million Android apps available for download as of March 2017.

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