Introduction IntelliJ IDEA supports development of applications to be executed on mobile phones that run under theAndroidoperating system. Besides general coding assistance, the IDE lets you test Android applications on user-configured emulators of physical devices. IntelliJ IDEA helps: Create an Android application using the New Project Wizard .Explore an Android application as a tree-view of files and folders .Create elements of an Android application and manage static content resources, such asstrings, colors, etc. via tight integration between resources and the R.javafile. Run an application.Configure an emulator of a physical device to run Android applications on. This tutorial will walk you step-by-step through developing and launching a simple Android application. Prerequisites You are working with IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate edition version 10.5 or higher. Java SDK (JDK) andAndroid SDKare installed on your machine. This tutorial uses SDK 3.1. Creating a New Project Let’s start from the very beginning and create a projectfor our application. Choose File | New Project on the main menu or click the Create New Project icon on the Welcome screen ( Image 1).
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7/31/2019 How to Create an Andriod Application Simple Appliction
On the second page of the wizard ( Image 3), choose the parent folder (1) to create the
project in and specify the name of the project (2). As you type the project name, IntelliJIDEA updates the path to the location of the project files accordingly. Select the Create
module check box (3) and choose Android Module (4) as the module type. By default,
the module will have the same name (5) as the project. The name of our project and
On the third page of the wizard ( Image 4), choose the Create source directory option
(1) and accept the default name src (2) for it. IntelliJ IDEA displays the full path to the
src folder (3) for your information.
Image 4.
Configuring Android SDK and Java SDK
On the fourth page of the wizard ( Image 5), we’ll integrate IntelliJ IDEA with the
Android SDK and specify the target Android platform for which the application isintended.
Previously, you could configure an Android SDK inside the Android module facet
settings, while the JDK played the role of the main project/module SDK. IntelliJ IDEA
10.5 considers the Android platform itself as the project/module SDK.
Besides an Android SDK, you still need a JDK because IntelliJ IDEA uses it in
compilation.
When you are creating a project for the first time after IntelliJ IDEA installation, no
Android or Java SDKs are configured at the IDE level yet. This means that IntelliJ IDEAdoes not know the location of any Android SDK or Java SDK home directories, even if
you have several of them on your computer.
To configure a Java SDK and an Android SDK at the IDE level, click the Browse button
Click the Configure button and specify the location of the desired JDK in the Select
Home Directory for JSDK dialog box that opens. When you click OK, you return to thewizard where the selected JDK is listed as the Project JDK. The specified JDK is now
available at the IDE level. IntelliJ IDEA will treat this JDK as the default project JDK for
any new project and will not bring you to this page anymore.
Image 5.
Configuring Java SDK
Let’s first configure a Java SDK. In the Configure SDK dialog box that opens ( Image6 ), click the Add toolbar button (1) and choose JSDK (2) from the list:
In the Select Home Directory for Android SDK dialog box ( Image 10) that opens,
specify the folder where the relevant version of Android SDK is located (1):
Image 10.
When you click OK (2), IntelliJ IDEA asks you to specify which version of Java SDK(JDK) configured at the IDE level you want to use in this project ( Image 11):
Image 11.
We have just configured the first JDK after IntelliJ IDEA installation, so the list containsonly one item (1). Just click OK.
In the dialog box that opens ( Image 12), select the Android target platform. This is the
Android platform for running on which your application will be intended. Choose
Android 3.1 (1):
Image 12.
Upon clicking OK, you return to the Configure SDK dialog box ( Image 13), where bothnew SDK configurations – the Java SDK (1) and the Android SDK (2) – are on the list:
Image 13.
Click OK (3). At last we are back to the fourth page of the wizard ( Image 14). As youcan see, IntelliJ IDEA has detected and recognized the newly configured Android SDK
The .idea (1) folder contains a number of subfolders, mainly with internal IntelliJ IDEAinformation.
The src (2) folder contains the MyActivity.java (3) file source code that implementsthe functionality of your application. The file belongs to the com.example package.
The res (4) folder contains various visual resources.
The layout/main.xml file (5) defines the appearance of the application
The values folder (6) is intended for storing .xml files that describe resources of
various types. Presently, the folder contains a strings.xml file with String
resources definitions. As you will see from the Adding a Color section, the layoutfolder can also contain, for example, a descriptor of colors.
The drawable folders contain images (7).
The gen (8) folder contains the R.java (9) file that links the visual resources and the Javasource code. As you will see from the sections below, IntelliJ IDEA supports tight
integration between static resources and R.java. As soon as any resources are added or
removed, the corresponding classes and class fields in R.java are automatically
generated or removed accordingly. The R.java file also belongs to the com.example
package.
Creating Elements of Your Application
To illustrate the mainstream Android development workflow in IntelliJ IDEA, let’s
expand the stub “Hello world!” application with a piece of text to explain the main goals
of the application. Let’s also define the color in which the explanation text will bedisplayed on the screen.
As you can see from Image 17 , the source code of MyActivity.java (1) just references
the layout/main.xml file (4) that defines the application appearance. To navigate to the
referenced code, position the caret at the reference (2) and press Ctrl+B. The main.xml file (4) opens.
Image 17.
As you can see, the text to be displayed is Hello World, MyActivity.
As you can see ( Image 18), IntelliJ IDEA reports an unresolved reference and highlights
it red.
Image 18.
But IntelliJ IDEA also suggests a quick fix for the problem: just press Alt+Enter or click the red bulb (1), then choose Create resource explanation in strings.xml option (2)
from the list ( Image 19):
Image 19.
IntelliJ IDEA opens the strings.xml file where a new empty string definition is added
Type the application description inside the <string /> tag, for example:
This simple Android application illustrates the mainstream Androiddevelopment workflow in IntelliJ IDEA.
Image 21 illustrates the updated source code of the strings.xml file (1). If you click the
Go to resource button (2) in the left gutter area, the R.java file (3) opens, with thenew string added to the list of string resources (4) and the cursor positioned at this new
resource:
Image 21.
Adding a Color
Now let’s define the color to display the explanation string, To do that, we will create a
color resource file with a string_color definition ( Image 22). In the project tree, rightclick the values folder (1) and choose New (2) | Values resource file (3) on the context
menu. In the New values resource file dialog that opens, specify color as the new file
Now, let’s add a string_color resource definition. Open the color.xml file in the
editor by double-clicking it in the Project tool window. Inside the <resources /> tag,
type the color definition in the form:
<color name="string_color">hexadecimal identifier of thedesired color prepended with #</color>
In our example ( Image 24), the hexadecimal identifier is #ff00ff77. As you type thecolor definition (1), IntelliJ IDEA shows the preview of the specified color (2) in the left
gutter area:
Image 24.
As you might have guessed, the new resource definition is automatically reflected in
R.java ( Image 25):
Image 25.
Now, let’s apply the new color to the explanation string. In the main.xml file, locate the
and add the following code inside it below android:text="@string/explanation" :
android:textColor="@color/string_color"
That’s all with developing the sources of our application.
Running Android Application
During the project creation, IntelliJ IDEA has generated the default run configuration
android_hello_world. To launch the application straight away, we only need to
configure a virtual device to run it on. This device will emulate execution of the
application on the target physical device.
Configuring a Virtual Android Device
From the Run/Debug Configuration ( Image 26 ) drop-down list on the toolbar, choose
Edit Configurations (1).
Image 26.
IntelliJ IDEA opens the Run/Debug Configurations dialog box ( Image 27 ) that shows
the details of the default android_hello_world run configuration (1). As you can see,
IntelliJ IDEA has already selected the module hello_world(2) to apply the configurationto and the activity to launch (3). Make sure the Deploy application check box (4) is
selected and the Choose target device manually check box (5) is cleared.
The target platform must be the one appointed during the module Android SDK
configuration.
When you click OK, IntelliJ IDEA brings you to the Select Android Virtual Device
dialog box ( Image 30), where the virtual device you’ve defined is already added to thelist and selected.
Image 30.
Click OK to save the settings and return to the Run/Debug Configurations dialog box( Image 31), where the Prefer Android Virtual Device for Deployment drop-down list
Complete the configuration definition settings by clicking OK.
Fortunately, you need to configure a virtual device only once, during the first application
start. IntelliJ IDEA will use it by default when you start your application with the
android_hello_world run configuration. Moreover, IntelliJ IDEA remembers this virtual
device at the IDE level so you can use it for running other applications.
Start Application
Now that we are through with all the preliminary steps, let’s launch our application.
On the toolbar ( Image 32), click (2) next to the Run/Debug Configuration (1) drop-down list where the android_hello_world run configuration is already selected by
default.
Image 32.
IntelliJ IDEA launches the configured emulator ( Image 33) and deploys the Hello world