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ProGuard helps shrink your final APK by removing unused libraries. Inside the app folder youвЂ™ll find two directories and three files: idea/ which is where IntelliJ (which Android Studio is built on) stores configuration files. What does that leave us with? Just the app/ folder and some files in. idea/.ДЄlso, local.properties arenвЂ™t important either, as well as build/. If you Google what iml files are for you will see they are used by Android Studio and can be regenerated from the configurations in. LetвЂ™s look at what files are not included in source control by looking at. Clearly the main complexity in Android projects is the build system. What do we have without any Gradle files ? The first thing to notice is that most files involve Gradle, the system for configuring and executing builds. This is what Android Studio creates when you start a completely bare project. Note: IвЂ™ll be doing this on Windows but most instructions should work on other platforms. We wonвЂ™t assume any previous Android experience, just a little Java. Software development is about files and in this tutorial weвЂ™re going to go through every file in a basic Android project вЂ“ first by examining what Android Studio outputs and then by building up an Android project from scratch.

The components that make up an Android Studio project.

This isnвЂ™t great for learning since you donвЂ™t see how things work, namely

Virtually every Android tutorial uses Android Studio to create and develop an app.

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