Check out the Top 5 Features of Android Studio 3.0

Henry Nash
Digital Fitser Australia
3 min readOct 24, 2019

Android Studio 3.0 is the latest IDE that has several features and functionalities. It supports Java 8 version and Kotlin language as well. To know more about this IDE, keep on reading the post.

On average, 1 out of 2 professionals from the software development company works on the mobile platform. As per the recent data by Evans Data, the total number of android developers globally will be 7 million at the end of 2020. It is also seen that the mobile app developers who prefer to work on the android platform are double to those who like to work on the iOS platform. Android Studio 3.0 is the latest version of the integrated development environment of the android platform. This feature was first released in the year 2017.

Most of the companies offering android app development in Melbourne or at other location prefers using this android studio 3.0 has it provides lots of benefits to the users.

Check out the key features of Android Studio 3.0 in brief:

Android Profiler

In this version of Android Studio 3.0, the android monitor window has come with the latest segment called the android profiler window. This new window is made to provide the developers with the unified views of the data related to the software. The Android Profiler has three different timelines- the “CPU Profiler”, “Network Profiler” and the “Memory Profiler”. Clicking each one of the segment can lead to more information.

This window can be viewed by clicking:

View — > Tool Windows — > Android Profiler

After this, you can choose the app process and device; the “logcat” will appear on the new window.

Support of the Kotlin Language

Many developers were looking for the best platform that can support the Kotlin Language and finally the IDE or the Integrated Development Environment has a platform that will support the Kotlin programming language. The built-in conversion tool in the Android Studio 3.0 is helping the coders to add the Kotlin code to the projects that can be developed from scratch. Kotlin is considered as the most popular and fastest-growing languages in recent days.

Have Fast Builder Times

Android Studio 3.0 has the theme that will attract most of the app developers- “speeds and smarts”. The increase in the built-up speeds can be beneficial while working on complex applications. Depending upon the nature of the app development process, the built time and speed vary from just a few seconds to several minutes. Android Studio 3.0 is the faster IDE to date.

Having Compatibility with Java 8 Version

Along with supporting the Kotlin, one of the biggest and important features of using the Android Studio 3.0 is that is compatible with Java 8 version. Java 8 toolkit is now supported by the IDE along with some built-in Java libraries. To install the Java 8 on this IDE, the developers have to disable the “jack” and change the “Target” and “Source” compatibility with 1.8. ‘Instant Run’ is the most popular and latest feature of Java 8 that is supported this IDE.

Have Better Layout Editor

The layout editors of the older version of Android Studio have several scopes to improve. The latest layout editor has lots of functionalities and improvements. There is a new error panel, the drag-in-drop section that has the improved component tree.

These are some of the important features of Android Studio 3.0. This IDE upgrade has brought several latest app developments in recent times due to its varied features and functionalities.

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