To get started with Android development, you will need to download and install the Java Development Kit (JDK) from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html. You will also need to download and install the Android Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE), from https://developer.android.com/studio/.

To create a new project, launch Android Studio and press Start a new Android Studio project. Then, you should type a project name and your unique application ID, as shown in the following screenshot:

In the preceding screenshot, the Application name field is filled according to the name of this book, and the Company domain field is  packt.com. Android Studio concatenates these two values and creates the Package name identifier that is equal to the application ID identifier. In our case, the application ID is as follows:

com.packt.learn_spring_for_android_application_development