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For those getting lost in the IDE I recommend trying command line. Here's a good tutorial: http://geosoft.no/development/android.html (you'll have to change some file paths due to SDK path changes though, just search for the executable)

I find Android development very tedious though (compared to web-dev) both with and without the IDE. Especially the xml-files and "enterprise" Java code.

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This is really outdated IMO. Why not just build using latest and greatest with gradle?

Change is hard.

I use a bash script.

Using gradle, especially with how it integrates with Android Studio, is a much better solution. Google really got it right with gradle IMO, in that building from the IDE builds EXACTLY the same as if it were built from the command line with gradle. Building manually with bash like this just seems masochistic.

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