Android Studio is a development environment for the Android platform. We will quickly review the installation steps and basic configurations required to start the app on a mobile phone. For a more detailed introduction to Android development, I would recommend an introductory book, Android 5 Programming by Example by Kyle Mew, Packt Publishing.

Grab the latest Android Studio for developers at https://developer.android.com/studio/ and follow the installation instructions at http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/index.html?pkg=studio. The installation will take around 10 minutes, occupying approximately 0.5 GB of space.

Follow the instructions and select your preferred options for installation, and finally click on Finish to start the installation, as shown in the following screenshot: