The latest stable release of Android Studio, dubbed Flamingo, brings Live Edit for Composable UIs, new app inspection features, updated IntelliJ, and more.

Studio Bot uses Codey, a new AI model for text-to-code generation announced by Google today that can suggest code as developers type into the editor. It can also generate code from a prompt.

This resulted in a lot of different interpretations of Google’s ideas with mixed results. Moreover, Material Design was initially very limited to its implementation on the Android platform.

In Part 1, you’ll start up your first Android project and get to know Android Studio’s main window.; In Part 2, you’ll code the app, learning how to use Android Studio to enter source code ...