Android Studio and similar other IDE's provide various features to developers which make a comfort environment for them. Hence, it is called as Integrated Development Environment (IDE). More technical, an integrated development environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development. One of the most helpful feature is the content assist.
Content/Code assist helps the developer to write code faster and more efficiently. This is achieved by simplifying the task of coding to allow it to focus on the business task being coded. Based on the context of the code, content assist provides the developer with a list of accessible keywords according to a programming language specification, variable, methods, data types.
Autocomplete: - Autocomplete, or word completion, is a feature in which an IDE predicts the rest of a word a user is typing.
For example, in an XML context, when the developer types an opening tag "<" he is offered a list of tags via autocomplete, contextualized following the DTD or XML schema of the document. As the developer types more letters, the offered choices are filtered to only retain the relevant completions. When the developer finally completes the tag, the editor automatically generates the closing tag.
Another example, a developer can just type in the first letter if lowercase and the uppercase letters from a type/variable name then press Ctrl+space to be offered all the choices that match the entered letters that are valid for the current context (class name, interface name, variable or field names).
Code snippet/templates: - Code snippets allow the developer to add a complex coding structure by typing a minimal amount of text. Code snippets can only be used in a valid context (statements snippets are only offered when you can insert statements).
Specifically, in Android Studio ctrl+space (content assist) does 50% work of the developer's work.
Android studio has few more interesting features as well which makes development pretty simple.
Refer below link to meet Android studio,
https://developer.android.com/studio/intro/index.html
Content/Code assist helps the developer to write code faster and more efficiently. This is achieved by simplifying the task of coding to allow it to focus on the business task being coded. Based on the context of the code, content assist provides the developer with a list of accessible keywords according to a programming language specification, variable, methods, data types.
For example, in an XML context, when the developer types an opening tag "<" he is offered a list of tags via autocomplete, contextualized following the DTD or XML schema of the document. As the developer types more letters, the offered choices are filtered to only retain the relevant completions. When the developer finally completes the tag, the editor automatically generates the closing tag.
Another example, a developer can just type in the first letter if lowercase and the uppercase letters from a type/variable name then press Ctrl+space to be offered all the choices that match the entered letters that are valid for the current context (class name, interface name, variable or field names).
Code snippet/templates: - Code snippets allow the developer to add a complex coding structure by typing a minimal amount of text. Code snippets can only be used in a valid context (statements snippets are only offered when you can insert statements).
Specifically, in Android Studio ctrl+space (content assist) does 50% work of the developer's work.
Android studio has few more interesting features as well which makes development pretty simple.
Refer below link to meet Android studio,
https://developer.android.com/studio/intro/index.html
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