Google Android Studio 0.2.x

Google released Android Studio 0.2.0 with build number of 130.737825.

It is a new bundle and users need to download the installer from Google Android website.
http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html#Updating

In the installation guides, it suggests users to back up some folders in the 0.1.x installation if users want to install the new version in the folder of the older version previously installed on the computer.

One of the most important feature in this release is the parallel build of independent modules, but it is not turned on in default settings, users need to "go to Preferences > Compilerand check the box Compile independent modules in parallel."

And this release is not backward compatible with previous releases.

After downloading the recent update of 0.2.1, the start up time is terrible long. After clicking on the shortcut icon on the desktop, I waited for about 1 mins for the window with progress bar show up, and the progress bar move slowly too, it took another 20 seconds for the Quick Start windows show up. This made me feel I am using very old version of Netbeans which usually took 2 mins to start up, but now the latest Netbeans starts up very quick. The time taking to start up this version of Android Studio is in the range of Netbeans 7.3.1, but in Netbeans it also starts up a bunches of services, servers, and load up my projects.

If I set the Android Studio to load up my projects at start up, it would take more longer. Even the project has been built, the building system is still trying to rebuilt the project again, and do other stuffs like checking something.

It also takes longer to create a new project. The building system is very busy. And while the system is doing the indexing, the tip window is not responsive.

Update 130.762670, 0.2.3, this is a minor update with more user friendly improvement on error warning message.

Updated to 0.2.7, and learnt a way to delete project in QuickStart - just move the mouse to the project and hit the "Delete" button in your keyboard/keypad.