1 00:00:04,500 --> 00:00:08,500 So there are some other configuration changes that I recommend, to make Android 2 00:00:08,500 --> 00:00:12,670 Studio a bit easier to use and a bit more helpful. So I'm going to open up 3 00:00:12,670 --> 00:00:15,910 Android Studio, get to the Welcome screen. Come down over here and click on 4 00:00:15,910 --> 00:00:20,830 Configure. I'm going to select Settings, but it may be labeled as Preferences on 5 00:00:20,830 --> 00:00:25,750 a Mac. Click on that. Once it opens you want to make sure that Appearance and 6 00:00:25,750 --> 00:00:30,220 Behavior is selected, which in my case, it is. Come down to System Settings, which is 7 00:00:30,220 --> 00:00:33,519 already opened, as you can see there. Then we want to come down and choose Update, so 8 00:00:33,519 --> 00:00:36,879 I'm going to select Update. Now normally you choose this Stable channel here and 9 00:00:36,879 --> 00:00:40,870 you can see that by default, Stable channel is selected. So I strongly 10 00:00:40,870 --> 00:00:44,890 recommend not using any of the tools that aren't in the stable channel. So 11 00:00:44,890 --> 00:00:48,519 click Apply if you've made a change, but in my case, I didn't need to. The next 12 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:54,600 thing to do is come down here to Editor, expand Editor, expand General, up here. 13 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:58,960 The next thing we want to check there is Auto Import so I'm going to click on that. 14 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:02,799 Now what you want to do is make sure that you check both Add unambiguous imports 15 00:01:02,799 --> 00:01:07,330 on the fly, and also check Optimize imports on the fly for current project, 16 00:01:07,330 --> 00:01:14,109 and click Apply. Then next we want to come down and select, or choose, Appearance, 17 00:01:14,109 --> 00:01:18,670 over here to the left. We want to make sure that Show line numbers are selected, 18 00:01:18,670 --> 00:01:24,369 and also check Show method separators. Now Show method separators is optional, 19 00:01:24,369 --> 00:01:27,640 but I do recommend that, generally, just to make things a little bit easier to 20 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:31,420 see, it really separates methods and just makes things a little bit easier, and line 21 00:01:31,420 --> 00:01:35,350 number, Show line numbers, as you saw, was already checked. Alright, next we want 22 00:01:35,350 --> 00:01:38,829 to go down here to Code Folding, so we're still in Editor, General, Code 23 00:01:38,829 --> 00:01:45,030 Folding. You want to uncheck the following options: File Header, Imports, 24 00:01:45,030 --> 00:01:52,420 One-line methods, Closures and also Generic constructor and method 25 00:01:52,420 --> 00:01:55,929 parameters. And someone who's starting out with Android development or Android 26 00:01:55,929 --> 00:02:00,189 Studio, generally that's a good idea, because what they are is, when they're 27 00:02:00,189 --> 00:02:03,639 checked they're more for advanced programmers and they actually hide code. 28 00:02:03,639 --> 00:02:07,299 It can be confusing if you're not experienced using Android Studio. So I'm 29 00:02:07,299 --> 00:02:10,149 going to leave them unchecked but you can obviously decide what you want to do 30 00:02:10,149 --> 00:02:17,080 there. Click on OK. Now just a note here for Windows users; you 31 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:20,920 may not see this and in my test thing I didn't see it pop up, but if you see a 32 00:02:20,920 --> 00:02:24,970 pop up window that looks similar to this, make sure, very important that you check 33 00:02:24,970 --> 00:02:29,380 the Private Networks checkbox there. And it's also recommended that you untick 34 00:02:29,380 --> 00:02:33,400 the Public Networks checkbox as well, but the most important thing is that you 35 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:37,210 must allow access on private networks by checking that Private Networks checkbox. 36 00:02:37,210 --> 00:02:41,560 In older versions of Android Studio it seemed to come up all the time, but I 37 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,680 wasn't able to get it to come up with a new installation of Android Studio, but 38 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:49,840 if you do see it, just make sure you check that, check private and uncheck 39 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:53,520 public, and again that's a Windows specific thing. Alright, so at this 40 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:56,820 point, we're done now with the configuration. We're all good to go and 41 00:02:56,830 --> 00:03:02,160 we can start working on programming with Android Studio in the next video.