How to Build your first mobile app with the Android Studio IDE

Building mobile apps without using web interface technologies has never been a simple task to many  newbies or seasoned developers .But did you know that you can create a simple mobile app using Android Studio IDE and deploy it to Google play store or share with your friends?

Android Studio is the official google IDE tool for developing   native android apps.It is an open source tool which has since replaced the former Eclipse Development kit since in 2014 and it is available for all downloads in Windows, Linux and Mac OS binaries.

Today am going to take through on how you can build your first mobile app using android studio IDE.Hoping that you have your Android Studio installed, open it so that it displays a Gui like this one below.

Then Hover along the menu bar and look for file menu, click on it and select the New Option. From the new option, Click on New Project and another popup window  like this one below will open.

In this window, you are needed to configure the name of your app and your project location where you will be working on.

Click Next and another window pop  like one here  below will show up.This window only will guide you on configuring the target devices which your app will be deployed.Select Phone and Tablet and choose API 15 which is Android version 4.0.3 as your minimum SDK to deploy your app across the devices as shown below.

You can also select other platforms such as TV, Glass,wear or Android Auto for  deploying your app too.click next and proceed to the next step.

After configuring  our target devices, Now we will choose a layout or interface which we would like to work with and also the one which fits our application better as shown here below in this popup;

For our application we will choose the Empty activity and click next to proceed in giving a name to your next new activity as shown below.

After that click finish and a new window popup like this will appear.Now it will be time to get our hands dirt .

Now, this is our Android interface which we will work on to create our application.Lets add buttons, labels and text views on our app.You can do this by going to Text view and writing down this whole code as i did.

Next,go to design mode and view your app and this  is the  the interface of your first app.

In the next session we will add functionality to it.If you have experienced any issue let me know and i will be of great help to you.Enjoy and please dont forget to share this post with your friends.