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Published inAug 2017
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Kyle Mew
Kyle Mew
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Kyle Mew has been programming since the early '80s and has written for several technology websites. Also, he has written three radio plays and four other books on Android development.
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In this chapter, we have looked at two approaches to assisting the process of code development: ready-made code, and assistant plugins and add-ons. Templates are often a great way to get a project off the ground quickly, and class inspection plugins allow us to easily understand larger templates, without having to pore over reams of code.

The other plugins we looked at in this chapter offered some different ways to make the task of app development easier and more fun. There are, of course, very many fantastic tools out there, and coding is continually becoming less monotonous and more creative.

This chapter has focused on programming in Java, but as any developer knows this is by no means the only language available. Android Studio provides support for both C++ and Kotlin (the latter can even be included alongside Java code).

In the next chapter we will explore how to...

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Kyle Mew

Kyle Mew has been programming since the early '80s and has written for several technology websites. Also, he has written three radio plays and four other books on Android development.
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