Yesterday Google launched an early access preview of Android Studio, an integrated development environment (IDE) for Android based on IntelliJ IDEA. This one-stop shop for coding, compiling, and testing includes all the standard Android SDK tools, plus build support, quick fixes, tools to catch major coding flaws, and a preview window. The Android Developer Tools session at Google I/O went into massive detail on the new project. The 53-minute session is embedded below, in case you couldn't make it.

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One of the cooler features of Android Studio is the multitalented preview window, which shows your code running on mock-ups of most of the standard Nexus devices in a real-time layout. You can even see what your app looks like in multiple languages. There's also a full WYSIWIG layout editor that works across several screen sizes and resolutions, though this is still a work in progress.

Google wants to make sure that you know this is a preview build - it's marked v0.1 on the developer website. Android Studio is available for free on Windows, OS X, and Linux. Developer.Android.com also has some tips on getting started, and a handy guide for migrating to Android Studio from Eclipse. You can check out the source code for Android Studio here.

Android Developers Blog - Android Studio: An IDE built for Android