The Docked Views

The “Project” view is not the only such view docked along the edges of the IDE. A variety of other such views are docked there by default, and the View > Tool Windows menu will offer other such views that you can display.

Some of these are “general purpose”, not strictly tied to Android app development. For example, the “Terminal” tool, docked by default towards the bottom of the IDE, brings up a terminal or command prompt, so you can execute command-line programs right from within the IDE:

Android Studio Terminal
Android Studio Terminal

Others of these, such as “Gradle” and “Logcat”, are tied to Android app development, and we will examine those in greater detail as we explore different aspects of how to write Android apps.

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