How to Install and Use Android Studio Bot: Easy Guide for Beginners
To get started we will be downloading the latest version of android studio i.e. Android Studio Iguana. If you go to the android studio official website’s download you won’t find Iguana. It is not yet a stable version.
Android Studio Bot is not yet available as part of androids official stable version i.e. Android Studio Giraffe| 2022.3.1.
So, to obtain Android Studio Bot we would have to go to the preview release page. It will provide us with early access to the latest features and improvements as well.
On the preview release page you will find Canary build. On the bottom you can see a green button that says Download Iguana. Start downloading Iguana from here.
On clicking the download button you will see the terms and conditions dialog popup.
Scroll to the bottom of the dialog and click on the check box and download button after agreeing to the terms and conditions.
Save as dialog will appear now save the android-studio-2023.2.1.5-windows.zip file in downloads folder or any other destination you like.
I will be saving it to desktop for this tutorial.
You can see the progress of the download in the top corner a blue down arrow button i.e. Recent Downloads list in your chrome browser.
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Once the download is complete start extracting the zip file in android-studio-2023.2.1.5-windows folder. Run the studio64.exe file which will be located on the path android-studio -> bin -> studio64.exe.
That will launch Android Studio Setup Wizard. Click the next button to go ahead with the process.
Select the standard setup option if you want to install all the necessary feature or custom if you wish to choose what to install. I will be selecting the standard option.
Next press the finish button to complete the setup.
It will start downloading necessary components. Will wait for the download to finish.
Finally download complete.
You can start with a new project to play with the Android Studio Bot.
Select Empty Activity to begin and click the next button. Choose a name for your project. I will be using the default My Application project and hit the finish button.
Gradle sync process started wait for it to finish.
You can still see the user interface of Iguana. I like the new top bar design got little bit of a greenish gradient. And fewer tabs on top which makes the UI feel simpler and easier to understand. Not over crowded like previous versions.
Here you can see in the right hand corner bar with icon has this icon android default alien head and a triangular rectangle shaped dot on it. If you hover over it it will show Studio bot text.
Click on it will show you a popup saying Log in to Google. As Studio Bot is Experimental you can check if you are on the list of countries it is available to. You can check the list here.
Once you login you will see a success message in the browser and in the android studio.
Click the next button. Read the privacy policy and go ahead. Check the box if you are 18 years above of age and click finish.
And you are done installing Android Studio Bot.
Lets meet the Android Studio Bot.
For testing I asked Studio bot to add Box to the Greetings Composable and here is what it did.
What I did was asked it the question and clicked the icon below that says Explore in playground. Which opened this bot-playground.kts tab.
It seemed very interesting. But when hit play it wouldn’t do anything.
Next I tried the option to insert at Cursor by clicking this small icon below with arrow and cursor on it. This is what it did.
It created a separate composable instead of adding it to the existing composable Greeting.
It is pretty good having chat-gpt like functionality inside android studio but it would be even better if it could insert the code at the desired position itself.
So that's all for now. You can try and explore more if you like.
Thankyou. :)
