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I'm @skyehi, and this might be the most important episode so far in my series, "Android App Development Tutorials for Beginners."
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What I'm about to share with you today will change the way you develop Android Apps using the Android Studio IDE from Google.
Just recently, Google released a new plugin for Android Studio with one purpose in mind: making Android App development easier and faster for both experienced developers and beginners.
I felt the strong need to share this episode with every one of my followers because I understand how impactful this new feature could be in your journey to becoming a great programmer.
So, the new plugin developed by Google is called StudioBot, and it's an AI plug-in.
As an Android App developer, you're able to integrate this plugin into your Android Studio IDE or development software, and it would help you generate code, find relevant resources for the project you're creating, learn the best coding practices, and also save time.
This will make developing Apps quicker and easier. You can give prompts in plain English, and the AI bot will help you.
To get started, you need to visit the main website of StudioBot and download the plugin. I'll teach you a couple of steps to get this done, guys.
Integrating StudioBot into Android Studio.
The truth is that while Bard's, another AI tool that can help you with coding, is fantastic, Android Studio has its own AI tool.
So, start by visiting Android's website and downloading the Android Studio Canary build.
The build offers a lot of new features and a brand spanking new layout delivered after nearly a decade of Android Studio IDE development and upgrades.
Before you can integrate, be sure that Android Studio is already fully installed on your PC.
- Let me share the prerequisites for this tutorial
Prerequisites
For the benefit of newcomers to Android App development or my series, I'll share with you the required software you need to be able to go through with this tutorial.
- Android Studio IDE - the platform on which we'll develop this and all other Android Apps.
- Java Development Kit, JDK - You need to install JDK correctly on your PC for your PC to be able to execute Java commands or codes.
- Physical Android Device or Emulator - After building the App, we'll need to test it either on an emulator or a physical Android device.
If you have all these checked out, you're absolutely ready to go through with this tutorial.
When you are through with installing all required software and getting the Android Studio Canary build, open Android Studio and on the right side of your project tab, you can see the Studio Bot tab.
So, guys, click on the Bot tab to open that up and make a complex feature request.
The cool thing is that the AI Bot can give you literal code snippets to help you develop parts of your App if not the whole thing.
Let me give you an example of a code request you can make, guys:
Using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, implement secure real-time chat functionality using Firestore
Or
Using Java and XML, implement a toast message
When you're through with that request, just click on the "Submit" button, and the StudioBot AI in your Android Studio will give you the results.
This is similar to ChatGPT but for programmers via Android Studio IDE.
When you hit the submit button, it would give you coding guidelines and snippets to help you develop the App.
It looks great at first glance, but you always want to test the App. You can implement that in your actual project and run the App to see the results.
So, guys, give it a shot and let me know how it goes.
That's all for today's blog. Mastering how to use this as a beginner can make your coding journey super easy. It may even get to a point where you barely need my tutorials to advance faster to become a professional.
StudioBot has got solutions to your problems and perhaps the future of programming would be that anyone at all could build Apps even without much experience in programming.
AI is a real game-changer, and these are some of the things it's bringing into the world.
Thanks for the time, guys. I hope you learned a lot from this particular episode.
Thank you all for the support. To my friends @stickupcurator or @stickupboys and everyone else
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