Android Studio 3.3

Android Studio is a new Android development environment based on IntelliJ IDEA. Similar to Eclipse with the ADT Plugin, Android Studio provides integrated Android developer tools for development and debugging.

The Android Studio includes: Android Studio early access preview; all the Android SDK Tools to design, test, debug, and profile your app; the latest Android platform to compile your app; the latest Android system image to run your app in the emulator.

Features of Android Studio:

- Live Layout: WYSIWYG Editor - Live Coding - Real-time App Rendering.
- Developer Console: optimization tips, assistance for translation, referral tracking, campaigning and promotions - Usage Metrics.
- Provision for beta releases and staged rollout.
- Gradle-based build support.
- Android-specific refactoring and quick fixes.
- Lint tools to catch performance, usability, version compatibility and other problems.
- ProGuard and app-signing capabilities.
- Template-based wizards to create common Android designs and components.
- A rich layout editor that allows you to drag-and-drop UI components, option to preview layouts on multiple screen configurations.

Changes in recent version (change history)

Android Studio 3.3 is a major release that includes a variety of new features and improvements.
The core Android Studio IDE has been updated with improvements from IntelliJ IDEA through the 2018.2.2 release.
Android Gradle plugin updates.
Delete unused Android Studio directories.
Lint improvements.
Create New Project wizard.
Profiler updates.
Android Studio 3.3 includes updates to several of the individual profilers.
Improved performance.
Profiler memory allocation tracking options.
Inspect frame rendering data.
Fragments in the event timeline.
View formatted text for connection payloads in the Network profiler.
Automatic downloading of SDK components.
Support for Clang-Tidy.
Android Studio now includes support for static code analysis using Clang-Tidy for projects that include native code. To enable support for Clang-Tidy, update your NDK to r18 or higher.