If you haven’t already, start up Android Studio. The menu bar provides a Build menu, which you’ll use to access Gradle and build the example application. Select Make Project from the Build menu.

To make the process as easy as possible for everyone building Android apps, the company offers Android Studio as its official Integrated Developer Environment (IDE).

This new terminal app provides a full-blown Linux development environment that allows developers to leverage the tools they need to build native apps. That includes Android Studio.

Android Studio 4.0 has released today, and it's a massive update with a variety of new designing and building tools for developers.

Android Studio, the integrated development environment (IDE) for Android app developers, is getting an AI upgrade, Google announced at its developer conference, Google I/O 2025.