Starting with version 2016 of IntelliJ IDEA, JetBrains has included an interesting feature called Create command line launcher, which Android Studio has inherited in its 2.2 update. This new feature allows the use of the diff / merge tools used in IntelliJ or Android Studio externally. Each brand new Android project that you create in Android Studio has a default launcher icon. It's a simple graphic of Andy the Android. But this is what you want to replace to brand your app. Now I've already included a graphic that we can use in the Exercise Files.
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By: Joe Marini course. 1h 16m 51s. 6,046 viewers. Course Transcript - Instructor Throughout most of this course, I'll be using the Android SDK Tools, through Android Studio. The tools can also be called from the command line, and there are times when it's important to know where they are, and how to use them. I've opened up Command Prompt on Windows, and I'm going to my SDK directory. Which I've placed under my Home directory.
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If you're working on Mac, go to the SDK directory under Library, under your Home directory, and then Android sdk. Now, I'll type dir, and then asterisks tools. I see that there are three directories that have the word tools in their names. The build-tools, platform-tools, and then simply tools. The two most important of these are the tools, and the platform-tools directories.
I'll list the contents of platform-tools. If you're working on Mac use ls, instead of dir. I'll see that there are commands named adb, dmtracedump, fastboot, and so on. Abd is the Android Debug Bridge. A critical piece of software, that let's you. Practice while you learn with exercise files.