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title: "What are the basic tools used to develop an Android app?"  
description: "What are the basic tools used to develop an Android app?"  
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published: 2022-04-14  
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# What are the basic tools used to develop an Android app?

What are the [basic](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/34340/what-is-basic-authentication) [tools](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/312253/essential-work-from-home-tools) used to develop an Android app?

## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

## The basic tools used to develop an Android app:

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- **[Android](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96798/is-android-os-a-good-system) Studio** is without a doubt the most popular tool for Android developers. It's an official integrated environment for Android app development that makes editing, debugging, and testing code a breeze.
- It's an Android **IDE** that lets you create Android apps on your phone or tablet. AIDE allows you to not only create code but also execute, test, and debug it on your phone or tablet. In comparison to Android Studio or IntelliJ IDEA, this environment is a good choice for new developers. The disadvantage is that it only works with Java and C/C++.
- **Stetho** is a Facebook-developed open-source library for debugging applications quickly. By allowing access to a Chrome Developer Tools feature unique to the desktop browser, Stetho gives the app a website experience.
- **Gradle** is a build automation solution that was first released in 2013. This solution, which combines the best of Apache Maven with Apache Ant, is suited for multi-project, large-scale builds. Gradle makes it simple to include a third-party library by requiring only one line of code.
- Asset Studio for Android-It's a fantastic collection of simple tools for creating the many types of icons you'll need when designing and developing apps.

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