The document outlines features and tools for Android Studio, emphasizing its benefits for developers with about 3 years of experience. It discusses the advantages of using flavors for app versions, the transition to vector assets for better resource management, and various monitoring tools for app performance. Additional tips and resources are provided for optimizing development processes and using Android Studio effectively.

1. Exploring Android Studio
Get relaxed, as the fun is about to begin!

2. About me
~3 years of Android
Development Experience
Pursing Bachelor Degree in
Computer Engineering
Akshay Chordiya
+AkshayChordiya

3. Portfolio
Automaton Locker - 100K downloads
Active Notify - 64K downloads
Jair Player - 100K downloads
Few other apps too

4. Flavors

5. Why Flavors?
It used to create different
versions of the same
application from a single
project
It is extremely useful when you
have a demo version and a
paid version of your app, etc

6. Demo

7. Layout Editor

8. Layout Editor
Using tools namespace for better
Decoupling layout or Extract Layout file
Picking any API level, theme, device frame
Localization
You can even take screenshot of it!
The usual stuff (Live Preview, Drag-Drop, etc)

9. Material Icons
Switching to Vector Assets

10. Why switch to Vector Assets
They take less space
Almost negligible loss of image quality
Easier maintenance. No need to maintain separate resources
for each device density. Just single file
Extremely easy to manipulate image (Tint, Alpha, etc)
Helps to create beautiful animations of image

12. Pre-requisites for Vector Assets
1. Upgrade your project.gradle to newer version of Gradle
(Current is gradle:2.0.0-beta6)
2. Switch to new Android Studio 2.0
3. Switch to new AppCompat library (v23.2.0)

13. Lint Checker
Find code that doesn't
correspond to certain style
guidelines
Find duplicate, extra resources,
Missing translations
Suggests to use new APIs
Help finding certain performance
issues
Scans potential bugs
Plethora of stuff!

14. Demo

15. Monitor Tools
Provides a GUI for several
Android application debugging
and analysis tools
Memory Monitor is used for
finding the memory usage of
the app
CPU Monitor is used for finding
the CPU usage of the app
Network Monitor is used to track
the data used by an app
GPU Monitor for Graphics stuff

16. Demo

17. Resource Prefix
Mainly should be used by library
Add resourcePrefix ‘tag_’ to your
module gradle file
It will warn you make strings
which are specific to your
library with the tag specified

18. Example

19. Bunch of Protips

20. Use TODO comment to remind you to complete a certain
thing in future
Use Analyze Stacktrace feature to manually give stacktrace
and find the POJOs causing issues
Plenty of features, tools and shortcuts demo
#ProTip

21. Further Links
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Android Studio
Layout Editor Guide
Android Studio Layout Editor Video
Android Studio for Experts
Android Lint - Android Tools
Device Monitor - Android Developers

22. Questions?

23. Thank You!