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Add code from a template

Android Studio provides code templates that follow the Android design and development
best practices to get you on the right track to creating beautiful, functional apps. You can
use templates to create new app modules, individual activities, or other specific Android
project components.

Some templates provide starter code for common usage contexts, such as navigation
drawers or login screens. You can choose from these app module and activity templates
when you first create your project (/studio/projects/create-project), when you add a new app
module within an existing project (/studio/projects/add-app-module), or when you add a new
activity within an app module.

In addition to activities, you can also add other Android project components to an existing
app using templates. These templates include both code components, such as services and
fragments, and non-code components, such as folders and XML files.

This page discusses how to add Android project components like activities to your project
and describes the commonly used activity templates available in Android Studio. Note that
most templates depend on the Android Support Library (/tools/support-library/features) to
include user interface principles based on material design (/design/material).

Add a project component

The list of templates provided in Android Studio is constantly
growing. Android Studio groups templates by the type of
component that they add, such as an Activity or an XML
file, as shown in figure 1.

To add an Android project component using a template, use

the Project

window. Right-click on the folder in which you want to add

the new component, and select New. Based on what
components can be added to the folder you clicked on, you
then see a list of template types like those shown in figure 1.

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When you select the template you want to add, a

corresponding wizard window appears and asks for the
component's configuration information, such as its name.
After you enter the configuration information, Android Studio Figure 1. The templates menu,
creates and opens the files for your new component. It also accessible through the File > New
runs a Gradle build to sync your project. menu or by right-clicking in the
Project window.
Although you can also use the File > New menu of Android
Studio to create a new Android project component,
navigating to your desired folder in the Project window ensures that you create the
component in the correct place.

Select an activity template

One of the most common uses of templates is adding new
activities to an existing app module. There are templates for
creating screens for logging into an account, presenting a
list of items with details, or scrolling through a long block of
text.

Android Studio also provides templates for a variety of

different app module types, including Wear OS, Android TV,
and Cloud App Engine. You can view templates for these
different module types when adding a project component
(#FindTemplates). Templates also exist for more API-specific
modules and activities, such as Google AdMobs Ads and
Google Maps.

One of the most commonly used templates is the Empty

Compose Activity template, which creates an empty activity Figure 2. The Empty Compose
with a sample composable and a preview of the Activity template.

composable. It lets you to start from scratch when building

your app module or activity.

Use the Gemini API template

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Use the Gemini API template to build an application that implements Generative AI using the
Google AI SDK
(http://ai.google.dev/tutorials/android_quickstart?utm_source=android&utm_medium=referral). Before
beginning, ensure that you are running Android Studio Koala (2024.1.1) or higher.

Step 1: Build on the New Project template for AI

Start Android Studio and open a new project using File > New Project. Select the Gemini
API Starter template.

Choose the Gemini API template on the New Project screen.

Step 2: Generate the API key

In the next step of the wizard, after you choose a project name and location, provide an API
key for authentication to the Gemini API. If you don't have a Gemini API key, click the link
provided in the wizard to navigate to Google AI Studio (https://makersuite.google.com/app/apikey)

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and request a new key. Once completed, copy your new API key back into the wizard. Click
Finish.

New Project wizard for the Gemini API template.

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Copy and paste the API key into the New Project wizard.

Step 3: Start prototyping

Android Studio automatically sets up a project for you with a connection to the Gemini API,
simplifying your workflow. Click Run to see the code in action in the Android Emulator. The
app comes with a hard-coded prompt asking the model to "Summarize the following text for
me"; you can edit or expand the prompt directly in the code to modify what it can do. You
can learn more about creating prompts in the Google AI Studio documentation
(https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/ai-studio-quickstart).

Start prototyping with Gemini APIs.

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Important: Remember, your API key is a secret! Don't share it with anyone, and it is strongly
recommended that you don't check in an API key into your version control. The Gemini API Starter
template stores the API key in a local.properties file (which is located in your project's root directory,
but excluded from version control) and uses the Secrets Gradle plugin
(https://github.com/google/secrets-gradle-plugin) for Android to read the API key as a build
configuration variable.

Learn more

Learn more about the Google AI SDK for Android by reviewing the Google AI SDK for Android
quick start guide
(http://ai.google.dev/tutorials/android_quickstart?utm_source=android&utm_medium=referral). And for
even more code samples, you can import the Generative AI code sample into Android Studio
through File > New > Import Sample and searching for Generative AI Sample.

Import Generative AI Sample Wizard.

Try out Gemini's chat, text, and multi-modal capabilities in the sample app.

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Gemini's chat, text and multi-modal capabilities.

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Last updated 2024-06-13 UTC.

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