Best plugins for android studio to make application development superfast

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Become an Android developer, you always love the Plugins to use to make the android development easier and faster. Android Studio provides the awesome feature for android developer to connect with your favorite plugins. So in this tutorial, we will learn some of the best plugins that need to install to every android developer to develop the android apps super fast. These plugins are simply awesome for daily uses to make awesome Android apps. Let’s get started with the few list of plugins to install in your android studio.

1. ADB WIFI

It is an Android Studio plugin for debugging your Android app over Wi-Fi. This plugin is pretty good to connect your device to wifi. Once you installed this plugin then You do not require to connect your device to USB cable. I was really frustrated to connect with USB cable because my device USB port is very loose and while running debug the app it got the disconnect almost time. Installation of each plugin is pretty simple in the android studio. You need to follow the very simple step to install this plugin with an android studio.

Now in the next step, you need to connect the device via USB port first time. Please go to wifi setting of your device and click on advanced setting and scroll down here you can get the IP address of your device which needs to connect with adb.  Now open command prompt of your system to run the adb to connect to your IP address port. Please check the bellow snap to run the command.

Now go to the android studio and select the tool option on the top of the menu of the android studio and select the ADB WIFI to enable.

That’s it. Now you do not need to connect to USB cable to debug the application.

2. ADB Idea

A plugin for Android Studio and IntelliJ IDEA that speeds up your day to day android development.

The following commands are provided:

• Uninstall App
• Kill App
• Start App
• Restart App
• Clear App Data
• Clear App Data and Restart

This plugin is really helping me to develop android application fast. For doing the above task we are going to pick the device and do the corresponding things it’s like irritating. With the help of this plugin, these things become pretty easy and simple. You just need to select any above option to do the task. It is really amazing to develop the application fast. This plugin installation is same as above we have seen. Now let’s check how can we use this plugin.

3. ButterKnifeZelezny

This is the great plugin for view injection. It removed all boilerplate code which is written in our code by findViewById(). This is the most popular plugin for the Android developer because frequently used in the code. It saved a lot of time to the developer to write the boilerplate code which is really unnecessary. This plugin will work only when you added butterknife dependency in your project by official documentation which are below guidelines.

1. Make sure you have latest Butterknife lib on your classpath
2. Right click on usage of desired layout reference (e.g. R.layout.main in your Activity or Fragment), then Generate and Generate ButterKnife Injections
3. Pick injections you want, you also have an option to create ViewHolder for adapters.
4. Click andConfirm enjoy injections in your code with no work!

4. Android Material Design Icon Generator

Android Studio & IntelliJ Plugin for Material Design Icon. This plugin helps you to set material design icon in your app resources. With help of this plugin, we do not to go any website to download the image and add to resource folder. We do not worry about anything it will generate the material icon for you whatever size and color you need. It will also generate the vector image in the format of XML code to reduce the size of the apk.

5. DTO generator

Data Transfer Object(DTO) generator that generates Java classes from the given feed. You can paste the JSON response directly to generate a corresponding POJO for it.

Wrapping up: These are top five plugins that every Android developer should be installed for fast application development. There are many of plugins are available for the android studio to make development superfast and save the developer time to focus on business logic. I hope all recommendations about the above top five plugins have like for you. Here are the best offer and recommendation for you to download this.

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Sunil Gupta

I am a very enthusiastic Android developer to build solid Android apps. I have a keen interest in developing for Android and have published apps to the Google Play Store. I always open to learning new technologies. For any help drop us a line anytime at contact@mobologicplus.com