Android Studio 2.0 Preview: Instant Run
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it when explaining what Instant Run is, to answer confusion about its messages and slow emulator or build times.
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What it is
A 22-second official demo from the Android Developers channel showing Instant Run in the Android Studio 2.0 Preview. It shows code and resource changes in an Android app being pushed to a device or emulator and checked almost immediately.
What people said
Cites Dhaval Jivani · 2015-12 · Stack Overflow · on “Why emulator is very slow in Android Studio?”
Google Launches Android Studio 2.0 With Improved Android Emulator And New Instant Run Feature New Features in Android Studio 2.0 : 1.Instant Run: Faster Build & Deploy You can quickly see your changes running on your device or emulator. Enable Instant Run follow this steps: 1.open Settings/Preferences 2.go to Build, Execution, Deployment 3.Instant Run. Click on Enable Instant Please see this video of Instant Run --> Instant Run [this video] 2.GPU Profiler For developers who build graphics-intensive apps and games, the Studio now also includes a new GPU profiler. This will allow developers to see exactly what’s happening every time the screen draws a new image to trace performance issues. click he
Cites ianhanniballake · 2016-03 · Stack Overflow · on “How to compile only the needed Google Play Services' dependencies with Ant”
YMMV I guess. Things have changed *a lot* over the last few months particularly - Instant Run [this video] and sub 10 second pushes to a device has made a huge difference. And there's a whole community [LINK] specifically to get help with Gradle and another specifically for Android Studio [LINK]
Cites user2535467 · 2016-04 · Stack Overflow · on “Android studio "Your app does not have the latest code changes.."”
You saw this message because you killed and restarted your app manually after "Instant Run" applied changes to your app. In Android Studio 2.0, a new feature was added called "Instant Run". Instant Run is described in the Android Studio Project Suite [LINK] : Introduced in Android Studio 2.0, Instant Run is a behavior for the Run and Debug commands that significantly reduces the time between updates to your app. Instant Run pushes changes to methods and existing app resources without building a new APK, so code changes are visible almost instantly. A demo of Instant Run can be seen in this video [this video] . If you make a small change or changes, those changes will be implemented via Instant Ru