CHAPTER 16: The Future of Android: The 64-Bit Android 5.0 OS 615Creating Your First Android 5 Project
The first option listed on the Quick Start screen after you launch Android Studio 5.0 is the New
Project option, which is shown on the left side of Figure 16-19. This is the equivalent of a New ➤
Android Application Project menu sequence in Eclipse ADT, which you used in Chapter 3 to create
your Android 4.4 application. As you will soon see, this New Android 5.0 Project process is quite
similar to the New Android 4.4 Project process. The knowledge that you gained developing for 32-bit
Android 4 devices will transfer over to Android 5.
Figure 16-19. Select the New Project option, which will access the New Project: Configure Your New Project dialog
Click on the New Project option to open a New Project (Android Studio). The Configure Your
New Project dialog is shown on the right side of Figure 16-19. Let’s use an Application Name of
HelloAndroid5 and the Company Domain of beginners.absolute.com, as is shown in the first two
data entry fields in Figure 16-19.
This will create a package name of com.absolute.beginners.helloandroid5, as shown ghosted
in the next line of the dialog. IntelliJ will set a project location to C:\Users\SystemName\
AndroidStudioProject\HelloAndroid5, as shown in the bottom Project location data entry field, which
you should accept as is using the default folder location that is suggested by Android Studio 5.0.
Once everything is configured the way you want it, click Next, which will take you to the second
dialog in the New Android 5.0 Application Project series of dialogs. This will be the select Android
device form factor dialog, which you will look at next.
Once you click the Next button, you will see the Select the Form Factors Your App Will Run On
dialog, which is shown in Figure 16-20. This dialog has the default option selected for developing
your Android 5.0 application for Phone and Tablet, which I would call the default form factor for
an Android app, as this is currently the “sweet spot” in the market, with at least a billion of each of
these device types currently in use worldwide.