In this video, we are going to install Android Studio, which is going to be the integrated development
environment, so the I.D. so the software and we're going to use in order to develop Android applications,
therefore, you can just go to Google and search for Android Studio Archive and you will find this page
here.
Just click on it.
You see, it's on the studio archive.
That's where it's going to send us.
And I don't want to install the latest version of Android Studio because that will change constantly.
And I want you to have the exact same Android Studio version that I'm using in the videos because this
will reduce confusion and will make the learning process for you a lot smoother and a lot more enjoyable,
which is very important to me.
So let's go ahead and scroll through this page here.
You can, of course, read through the terms and conditions, and you should because, well, you agree
to them with this button here, which you need to click on in order to get to the downloads themselves.
So here is an overview of the different versions of Android Studio, and you can see there are a bunch
of them.
So Bumblebee is the one being currently developed, but it's in an alpha phase.
Or maybe beta.
You could say the canary version here is 11 at the point of recording, but we're not going to use that.
We're going to use Arctic Fox, which allows us to create Android 12 applications, which is what we
want to do.
And even if you're watching this course at the point when Android 13 or 14 or whatever is out.
No worries the basics will stay the same and the changes with each version, they don't really make
that much of a difference for us developers in the sense of what we need to develop, because most of
the time the features that we're going to use are features that are pretty old and they have been available
in all the versions of Android already, which is very important because if you look at it, the devices
that currently support Android 11 even are super limited.
So even though Android 12 is coming out now, not all devices have the latest version of Android 11.
So that's really something that you have to take into consideration, because what you want to achieve
is that your application will be able to run on as many devices as possible, and we're going to see
a little on that in the next video as well.
So here, let's go ahead and install this version, because that's the one that we're going to use to
Android Studio Arctic Fox 2020. 3.1 Patch two.
So it came out on September 1st, 2021, and that's the one that we're going to use throughout the entire
course, which is why it's really important for you to use this version as well.
Otherwise, things might look slightly differently or they will not work exactly the same and so forth.
And this will really diminish your enjoyment.
And that's not something we want.
And especially as a beginner for you, all of these extra features that will come out with new versions,
they will not be relevant for you.
They will be relevant once you are an advanced developer, and this will take you to basically finish
the course first in order to get there.
OK, so once you're done with the course, you will be an advanced developer, and at that point, you
will be confident enough to get started with new versions and discover new features and stuff.
OK, so once you click on this, you see that this pops up here, so the installers, the zip files
and so forth.
As I'm using a Windows PC here, I'm going to use this Windows installer, which makes it easier for
me.
Of course, you can also use the zip file and then extract it and then use the installer from there
and so forth.
But I'm just going to use this as Fatso.
So just click on this file and then save this file.
By the way, if you're using a different operating system accordingly, you would, of course, download
them from here.
So if you have a Mac with an Intel CPU, use this one.
If you have an AMD one and one X and two or whatever processor and Apple silicon version will be the
right one for you.
And finally, if you're using Linux, of course, to use this downloadable right here.
OK, so once you have this X-File on your PC, just double click on it and start the installation process.
Android studio set up will then open up, and you can just click next and here.
By the way, I will keep the Android virtual device active because I want to use an emulator on the
PC, so it's easier for me to record.
But if you want to test only on your actual phone, you can of course not install that.
If space is an issue on your PC.
But I really would recommend to install the Android virtual device because I will also show you some
neat little tricks with it later on in the course.
So then click next to install it.
Select where you want to store it.
I'm going to keep the default settings here and click next again.
Then if you want to add it to your start menu, just click Install.
Once you're ready.
OK, so once that is done, click on next and then you can start Android Studio, so let's do that real
quick.
You can see this beautiful fox pops up.
So in order to record this, I installed everything that had to do with Android Studio from my PC.
But it seems like it didn't show me this first screen where I could select the colors that I wanted
to have.
So in case you want to use a different theme, you can do so.
And I'm also going to use a different theme and you can go through the settings that will appear before
that.
So once you're done with that, you can just see this screen here.
Welcome to Android Studio.
So once I'm at this point, I want to customize my Android studio a little bit.
So here you can use a different color theme so you can see this this intelligent light theme that is
currently used.
But I want to use the dark color theme, which will make things a little darker.
And then also, you can change the font, which means the size of the text on the Android Studio software
and then in the ED itself.
So the code, you can change that here in order to make the code bigger or smaller.
But that is something you can change anytime in your Android Studio project.
OK, so we're going to get back to this point in the next video where we're going to create our first
project.