<p>You can now launch the Android Emulator with the Android N Preview AVD.</p>
<p>
-For the best experience in the Android Emulator, install
-Android Studio 2.1 Preview, which supports the <a
-href="http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/emulator">Android Emulator 2.0 Beta</a>
-with much faster performance compared to the Emulator in
+For the best experience in the Android Emulator, make sure you're using
+Android Studio 2.1 or higher, which supports <a
+href="http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/emulator">Android Emulator 2.0</a>
+with much faster performance compared to the emulator in
Android Studio 1.5.</p>
-<p class="note"><strong>Note:</strong>
- If you're currently using Android Studio 2.0 Beta, there's a known issue
- that prevents you from creating AVDs with the N Preview system images, so
- you currently need to use the Android Studio 2.1 preview to create AVDs.
-</p>
-
<p>For more information about creating virtual devices, see <a href=
"{@docRoot}tools/devices/index.html">Managing Virtual Devices</a>.
</p>
<img src="{@docRoot}preview/images/n-preview-setup.png" width="700" alt="" />
-<h2 id="get-as13">Get Android Studio 2.1 (preview)</h2>
+<h2 id="get-as13">Get Android Studio 2.1</h2>
<p>The Android N platform adds support for <a
href="{@docRoot}preview/j8-jack.html">Java 8 language features</a>,
use Java 8 language features, you need to use Android Studio 2.1 to
build your app. Otherwise, you don't need to use the Jack compiler, but you
still need to update to JDK 8 to compile against the Android N platform,
-as described below.
-</p>
-
-<iframe width="400" height="225" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/SBbWGxXCMqQ?autohide=1&showinfo=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;"></iframe>
-
-<p>Android Studio 2.1 is currently available as a preview in the canary
-release channel. If you already
-have Android Studio and don't want to update to the canary channel, you can
-download Android Studio 2.1 as a separate installation and use it
-for development with Android N, leaving your primary Android Studio
-environment unaffected.</p>
+as described below.</p>
-<p>To download Android Studio 2.1 as a separate installation, follow these
-steps (or if you want to receive Android Studio 2.1 as an update to your
-existing installation, skip to step 6):</p>
-
-<ol>
- <li>Edit the name of your
- existing Android Studio installation and append the version number. This way,
- when you install the new version, it will not override the existing one.</li>
- <li>Download the appropriate ZIP file for your operating system from the
- <a href="http://tools.android.com/download/studio/canary/latest"
- >canary channel download page</a>.
- </li>
- <li>Unzip the package and move the Android Studio 2.1 contents to the
- appropriate location for applications on your system, then launch it.</li>
- <li>In the setup wizard, click <strong>Next</strong> a couple times to
- reach the SDK Components Setup screen. Here,
- you must set a different path for the <strong>Android SDK Location</strong>.
- It can be any directory you want, but it must not be the default path, which
- is the same directory used by your original version of Android Studio (unless
- you changed that one yourself). The SDK location for Android Studio 2.1
- must be different because the N Preview SDK packages are not compatible with
- versions of Android Studio lower than 2.1.</p>
- </li>
- <li>Continue with the setup wizard until you reach the Android Studio IDE.</li>
- <li>Open the Settings dialog
- (<strong>File > Settings</strong> on Windows/Linux, or
- <strong>Android Studio > Preferences</strong> on Mac). In the left
- panel, select <strong>Appearance & Behavior > System Settings >
- Updates</strong>.
- </li>
- <li>On the Updates panel, select the <strong>Automatically
- check updates for</strong> check box and select
- <strong>Canary Channel</strong> from the drop-down list.
- </li>
-</ol>
+<p>If you already have Android Studio installed, make sure you have Android
+Studio 2.1 or higher by clicking <strong>Help > Check for Update</strong>
+(on Mac, <strong>Android Studio > Check for Updates</strong>).</p>
-<p>Keep this settings window open for the next step.</p>
+<p>If you don't have it, <a href="{@docRoot}sdk/">download Android Studio
+2.1 here</a>.</p>
<h2 id="get-sdk">Get the N Preview SDK</h2>
Android N Preview SDK in Android Studio as follows:</p>
<ol>
- <li>While still viewing the Updates panel (step 4 from above),
- select the <strong>Automatically
- check updates for Android SDK</strong> check box and select
- <strong>Preview Channel</strong> from the drop-down list.
- </li>
- <li>Click <strong>Check Now</strong>.</li>
-
- <li>In the left panel, select <strong>Appearance & Behavior >
- System Settings > Android SDK</strong>.
+ <li>Open the SDK Manager by clicking <strong>Tools > Android >
+ SDK Manager</strong>.</li>
- <li>Click the <strong>SDK Platforms</strong> tab, then select the
+ <li>In the <strong>SDK Platforms</strong> tab, select the
<strong>Android N Preview</strong> check box.</li>
<li>Click the <strong>SDK Tools</strong> tab, then select the
<pre>
android {
compileSdkVersion <strong>'android-N'</strong>
- buildToolsVersion <strong>'24.0.0-rc1'</strong>
+ buildToolsVersion <strong>'24.0.0-rc3'</strong>
...
defaultConfig {