Creating a Project

Initialize the application

If you want to set up the application environment on your system then follow along with the upcoming instruction.

The Android Studio is a pretty good IDE to create Android applications. Download the latest version of the IDE if you don’t have that already on your system. Fire up the IDE to create a new project. If the IDE doesn’t open an existing project, click on the link “Start a new Android Studio project.” If you already have a project open, then click on the File | New | New Project... menu items. Irrespective of the path you take to create a new project, in the next step, in the Choose your Project dialog select Phone and Tablet, and then select Empty Activity. Finally, click the Next button.

Name the project “Airports” and the package name com.agiledeveloper.airports. Provide an appropriate location to save your project. Make sure to select Kotlin as the language in the list box under the Language label. For the Minimum API Level, select API 28: Android 9.0 (Pie). Click on Finish to create the project.

Reviewing files

Let’s review the interesting parts of the project from within Android Studio.