Android Studio was first announced in May 2013 at the Google I/O conference and it is a free distribution that is available under the Apache License 2.0. The first stable build of the Studio was released in December 2014 starting at version 1.0. It is specifically designed for Android development and is available for download on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It replaced the Eclipse Android Development Tools (ADT) as Google primary IDE for Android application development.
