CHAPTER 16: The Future of Android: The 64-Bit Android 5.0 OS 605Since I downloaded the software, a version 0.8.2 has come out with some bug fixes, so instead of
redoing these images, I will instead add a section after we download, install, and tour Android Studio
that shows how to update the Android Studio IDE to the latest version by accessing the Google
Android Studio code repository.
Click the blue Download Android Studio button and download Android Studio to your workstation
hard drive. If you want to download other OS versions, you can click on the View All Downloads and
Sizes link, shown at the bottom of Figure 16-4, which you will look at a bit later after you examine the
rest of this page.
If you scroll down the page shown in Figure 16-4, you will see the IDE comparison table shown in
Figure 16-5, which will show you the differences between the IntelliJ IDEA and the Eclipse ADT IDE.
As you can see, Ant (an older, command-prompt-driven build system) is used for Eclipse ADT, while
Android Studio uses a Gradle build system, as well as supporting Apache Maven, a software project
Figure 16-4. Go to the developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html link to get the Android Studio 5 software