Latest News: February 11th, 2016: Android Studio 2.0 Beta 4 in Canary Channel (release notes)

Android Studio is the official IDE for Android application development, based on IntelliJ IDEA. Please refer to the official Android Developer site to i
nstall and use the current public release.

This site provides access to canary and beta builds for the Android Studio suite of Android developer tools, and details for contributing to the Android Studio the Android Open Source Project.

Current Android Studio Release Status
Canary  2.0 Beta 4 (release notes):  Feb 11th 2016
Beta      2.0 Beta 4 (release notes): Feb 5th, 2016
Stable   1.5.1 (release notes):  Dec 3rd, 2015


Contributing to Android Studio

Android Studio is part of the Android Open Source Project and accepts contributions.
  • To build the tools from source, see the Build Overview page.
  • To contribute to the tools, see the Contributing page.
  • Features we are hoping to get contributions for are listed in our Wishlist.
  • To help us improve alternative development environments for Android, see the Alternatives page.
  • See the main Android developer and source sites for more information.