Many of the Firebase services that Google detailed today can be added via a guided experience, Cuthbertson said.

Firebase Plugin: You can add Firebase to a new or existing Android app with the new Assistant window, and access Firebase features right in the IDE (Tools => Firebase).

Android Studio creates a snapshot of the current view hierarchy of your app for you to inspect, which is particularly useful when trying to track down a bug.

Layout Inspector: Drill into the view hierarchy of your app and analyze the attributes of each component of UI on the screen.

The built-in templates in the New Project Wizard now generate a Constraint Layout but you can also click on any layout in the new Layout Editor and select the Convert to ConstraintLayout option.

It is distributed as a support library tightly coupled with Android Studio and backwards compatible to API Level 9.

Constraint Layout: This flexible layout manager allows you to create dynamic user interfaces without nesting multiple layouts.Layout Editor: This new user interface designer lets you drag and drop widgets from the palette to the design surface or the component tree view of your app and offers a blueprint mode to inspect the spacing and arrangement of your layout, a Properties panel for quick widget edits, and an UI builder for editing menu and system preference files.

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