Google yesterday bumped up its official IDE for Android development to version 2.2, adding support for the company's new mobile OS, Nougat 7.0, along with a new layout editor and many other ...

Layout Designer (with constraint layouts) The two headlining features for this release include a new Layout Designer and an automated test recorder.

Google today launched Android Studio 2.2, the latest version of its integrated development environment (IDE), with over 20 new features across every major phase of the development process: design ...

Google has released a major new version of it’s Android integrated development environment: Android Studio 4.0. Highlighted features of version 4.0 include a new Motion Editor to help with animation ...

Also, note that with the introduction of Android SDK 8, fill_parent has been renamed to match_parent. Some of the more common layouts are: FrameLayout A FrameLayout is the simplest layout available.