Creating a New Android Project

Introduction

In this lesson, we’ll learn how to create a new project in Android Studio and run it on an emulator or a physical Android device.

Creating a new project

Let’s launch Android Studio on our machine and click “New Project” in the “Welcome Window.”

Clicking “New Project” opens a wizard where we’re asked to choose a template for our app. Android Studio will create a new project with some files based on the chosen template. Let’s choose an “Empty Activity” and click “Next.”

On the next page, let’s type a name for our project. We have the option to change the “Language” and the “Minimum SDK version” too. Since Google has declared Kotlin the official language for Android apps, we’ll stick ...