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AP Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for developing applications for Google's Android operating system. It is available for download on Windows with support for Linux and Mac OS planned for a later release.

AP Studio was announced on February 4, 2019 with it's first public alpha available on February 19, 2019.

The software was developed by and is part of AndroidPal, a developer community for Android developers.

Features
AP Studio supports many of the features of Android Studio, such as:


 * Gradle-based build support
 * Android-specific refactoring and quick fixes
 * Lint tools to catch performance, usability, version compatibility and other problems
 * Template-based wizards to create common Android designs and components
 * Android Virtual Device (Emulator) to run apps in AP Studio.

Additionally the following tools are included in the IDE:


 * Launcher Icon Creator (for creating or resizing icons)
 * 9-Patch Creator and Editor (for editing Android-specific 9-patch images)
 * Shape Drawable Creator and Editor (for editing Android specific XML shape drawables)
 * Layers (An advanced view hierarchy debugger)

Future development
AP Studio aims to create a low-code (or even no-code) development environment and allow a wider public to create Android apps.

Future goals also include introducing a new layout builder and integrating cloud services.

Other tools in development are:


 * Image Editor (a basic image editor)
 * Marketing Graphics Creator (use screenshots of your app on mobile devices mock-ups)
 * Git integration and hosting

Version history
The following is a list of Android Studio's release versions.