L0-1 Install Android Studio

Visit the android developer website to download Android Studio.

The website should detect what operating system you're using, but if not, you can scroll down the page to "Downloads", or click on this link.

Agree to the terms and conditions, and then click "Download Android Studio".

If you're using Windows, you should get a

installer. Double-click to run, and follow the onscreen prompts. If you're using Mac, you should get a installer. Double-click this and you'll get a window that tells you to move Android Studio into your Applications folder.

Once it's installed, we can go ahead and run it. If you're on a Mac, you'll probably get an alert that asks if you want to use "an app downloaded from the Internet".This is just a precaution, and it's safe to click "Open".

In certain cases your Mac might still block Android Studio. If so, follow the instructions at this link.

If you've followed these instructions, everything should be set up correctly. Once the download is complete, you should have a screen like the one below, and Android Studio should be successfully installed.

However, we can't start using Flutter just yet. Android Studio is built to work with Java and Kotlin (a programming language based on Java), but Flutter is a toolkit built off of the Dart programming language. Not only is Dart much nicer than Java or Kotlin, but Flutter will allow us to export apps for both Android and iOS (the OS for iPhones). Typically, we'd need to use another programming language like Swift to write code for Apple products, but Flutter takes care of that for us. All we have to do is install the Flutter plugin and we can start programming.