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management tool and repository. There are also a couple of other features supported by Android
Studio (IntelliJ), such as advanced code completion and refactoring, as well as the ability to generate
more than one (multiple) APK (Android Package) file, each of which will support a different type of
Android device, such as a smartwatch (Wear SDK), tablet, smartphone, or iTV set (Android TV SDK),
for instance. As you can see at the bottom of this IDE comparison chart, there is currently no NDK
(which stands for Native Development Kit) for C++ programmers for Android 5.0, which is fine for the
purposes of this book, since NDK development is not applicable to absolute beginners!
Figure 16-5. Check out the Android Studio versus Eclipse ADT comparison of IDE features and updating caveats
The bottom part of Figure 16-5 explains how to update to the latest version of Android Studio by
using the Help ➤ Check for updates menu sequence inside of IntelliJ to access the repository
and to install update “patches.” A software patch is a partial or incremental update to a software
package, usually to fix bugs or to add minor features.