So there are some other configuration changes that I recommend, to make Android
Studio a bit easier to use and a bit more helpful. So I'm going to open up
Android Studio, get to the Welcome screen. Come down over here and click on
Configure. I'm going to select Settings, but it may be labeled as Preferences on
a Mac. Click on that. Once it opens you want to make sure that Appearance and
Behavior is selected, which in my case, it is. Come down to System Settings, which is
already opened, as you can see there. Then we want to come down and choose Update, so
I'm going to select Update. Now normally you choose this Stable channel here and
you can see that by default, Stable channel is selected. So I strongly
recommend not using any of the tools that aren't in the stable channel. So
click Apply if you've made a change, but in my case, I didn't need to. The next
thing to do is come down here to Editor, expand Editor, expand General, up here.
The next thing we want to check there is Auto Import so I'm going to click on that.
Now what you want to do is make sure that you check both Add unambiguous imports
on the fly, and also check Optimize imports on the fly for current project,
and click Apply. Then next we want to come down and select, or choose, Appearance,
over here to the left. We want to make sure that Show line numbers are selected,
and also check Show method separators. Now Show method separators is optional,
but I do recommend that, generally, just to make things a little bit easier to
see, it really separates methods and just makes things a little bit easier, and line
number, Show line numbers, as you saw, was already checked. Alright, next we want
to go down here to Code Folding, so we're still in Editor, General, Code
Folding. You want to uncheck the following options: File Header, Imports,
One-line methods, Closures and also Generic constructor and method
parameters. And someone who's starting out with Android development or Android
Studio, generally that's a good idea, because what they are is, when they're
checked they're more for advanced programmers and they actually hide code.
It can be confusing if you're not experienced using Android Studio. So I'm
going to leave them unchecked but you can obviously decide what you want to do
there. Click on OK. Now just a note here for Windows users; you
may not see this and in my test thing I didn't see it pop up, but if you see a
pop up window that looks similar to this, make sure, very important that you check
the Private Networks checkbox there. And it's also recommended that you untick
the Public Networks checkbox as well, but the most important thing is that you
must allow access on private networks by checking that Private Networks checkbox.
In older versions of Android Studio it seemed to come up all the time, but I
wasn't able to get it to come up with a new installation of Android Studio, but
if you do see it, just make sure you check that, check private and uncheck
public, and again that's a Windows specific thing. Alright, so at this
point, we're done now with the configuration. We're all good to go and
we can start working on programming with Android Studio in the next video.