Revamped AVD creation dialogThe new dialog makes it easier to create Android Virtual Devices (AVDs) matching real device profiles. Existing developers can continue to manage their SDK components and get updates through the SDK Manager. One-click SDK installerNew Android SDK developers now have a convenient way to download all the various SDK components like Tools, Platform Tools, Eclipse ADT, and the latest system image with a single click. To learn more head over to the UI Testing documentation. UI Automator runs on Android 4.1 (API level 16) or higher. It provides a GUI tool to scan and analyze the UI components of an Android application (uiautomatorviewer), a library containing APIs to create customized functional UI tests, and an execution engine to automate and run the tests against multiple physical devices. UI Automator is a new software testing framework available in Tools R21 that provides you with tools to easily automate UI testing tasks.
The following is the SDK Manager, here you’ll be able to select and install the. On Linux, open the terminal and navigate to the directory named tools/ then execute SDK. The software belongs to Development Tools. This free software was originally designed by Google. The most frequent installation filenames for the software are: SDK Manager.exe, android.exe, TOOLS.EXE, TL.exe and studio64.exe etc. UI Automator Test FrameworkOne common approach to UI testing is to run tests manually and verify that the app is behaving as expected. Next to Launch SDK Manager you can try: On Windows, double-click the SDK Manager.exe file present at the root of the Android SDK directory. Android SDK Tools 26.1.1 is free to download from our software library. Here is a screenshot of the layout editor showing one of the layouts from the Google I/O application, across a variety of screen sizes. Finally, Android allows you to create specialized layouts for any of these configurations, and the multi configuration editor shows you these overridden layouts. You can even see how the layout appears when it is included as a fragment in a different larger layout. You can see previews for other screen sizes from small phones to large tablets, you can see previews for the layout using all the available language translations in your app, and so on. For example, while editing your layout in portrait mode, you can see if your edits aren't visible in the shorter landscape orientation. Multi-config editorA new multi-configuration editor allows you to develop and prototype your UI across various orientations, screen sizes and locales. For new developers, one-click SDK download and new app templates help you get started more quickly. Tools such as a new multi-config editor, and new Lint rules will help you develop apps more quickly, while a new UI test framework will give you more ways automate testing and QA for your apps. SDK Tools is a downloadable component for the Android SDK.It includes the complete set of development and debugging tools for the Android SDK.
The update includes new tools and capabilities that can help you work more efficiently as you create applications. Posted by Xavier Ducrohet, Android SDK Tech Lead, and Angana Ghosh, Product Manager in AndroidĪlong with the Android 4.2 SDK, we also launched a brand new update of the Android SDK Tools (Revision 21).