Maulik Lyass

If you are migrating from IntelliJ and your project already uses Gradle, you can open your existing project from Android Studio. If you are using IntelliJ but your project doesn't already use Gradle, you need to manually prepare your project before you can import it into Android Studio. For more information, see the Migrate from IntelliJ section.

Here are some of the key differences to be aware of as you prepare to migrate to Android Studio.

Android Studio is based on the IntelliJ IDEA IDE. To familiarize yourself with the IDE basics, such as navigation, code completion, and keyboard shortcuts, see Meet Android Studio.

Android Studio organizes code into projects, which contain everything that defines your Android app, from app source code to build configurations and test code. Projects open in separate Android Studio windows. Each project contains one or more modules, which let you divide your project into discrete units of functionality. Modules can be independently built, tested, and debugged.

For more information about Android Studio projects and modules, see the Projects overview.

Android Studio’s build system is based on Gradle and uses build configuration files written in either Groovy or Kotlin script for ease of extensibility and customization.

Gradle-based projects offer significant features for Android development, including the following:

For more information about using and configuring Gradle, see Configure your build.

Library dependencies in Android Studio use Gradle dependency declarations and Maven dependencies for well-known local source and binary libraries with Maven coordinates. For more information, see Declare dependencies.

If your IntelliJ project uses the Gradle build system, you can import your project directly into Android Studio. If your IntelliJ project uses Maven or another build system, you need to set it up to work with Gradle before you can migrate to Android Studio.

If you are already using Gradle with your IntelliJ project, open it in Android Studio using the following steps:

If your IntelliJ project doesn't already use the Gradle build system, you have two options for importing your project into Android Studio, which are described in the sections that follow:

To migrate your project into Android Studio by creating a new empty project and copying your source files into the new directories, proceed as follows:

To migrate your project into Android Studio by creating a new Gradle build file to point to your existing source files, proceed as follows:

Once you have migrated your project to Android Studio, learn more about building with Gradle and running your app in Android Studio by reading Build and run your app.

Depending on your project and workflow, you may also want to learn more about version control, managing dependencies, and configuring Android Studio. To get started using Android Studio, read Meet Android Studio.

Android Studio supports a variety of version control systems, including Git, Mercurial, and Subversion. Other version control systems can be added through plugins.

If your app is already under source control, you might need to enable it in Android Studio. From the VCS menu, click Enable Version Control Integration and select the appropriate version control system.

If your app is not under source control, you can configure it after importing your app into Android Studio. Use the Android Studio VCS menu options to enable VCS support for the desired version control system, create a repository, import the new files into version control, and perform other version control operations:

Note: You can also use the File > Settings > Version Control menu option to set up and modify the version control.

For more information about working with version control, see IntelliJ's Version control reference.

If a debug certificate was used previously, it might be detected during the import process. In this case, Android Studio continues to reference that certificate. Otherwise, the debug configuration uses the Android Studio-generated debug keystore, using a known password and a default key with a known password located in $HOME/.android/debug.keystore. The debug build type is set to use this debug configuration automatically when you run or debug your project from Android Studio.

Similarly, the import process might detect an existing release certificate. If no release certificate was defined previously, add the release signing configuration to the build.gradle or build.gradle.kts file or use the Build > Generate Signed APK menu option to open the Generate Signed APK Wizard. For more information about signing your app, see Sign your app.

By default, Android Studio has a maximum heap size of 1280MB. If you are working on a large project, or your system has a lot of RAM, you can improve performance by increasing the maximum heap size.

Android Studio updates separately from the Gradle plugin, the build tools, and the SDK tools. You can specify which versions you would like to use with Android Studio.

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Creating vertical text in Photoshop is surprisingly easy with the help of the Vertical Type Tool. However, if you have horizontal text that you’d like to convert to vertical text, there’s still an easy solution.

To create vertical text in Photoshop, you can use the Vertical Type Tool. This tool can be found by clicking and holding on the Type Tool and choosing the Vertical Type Tool. Alternatively, you can convert horizontal text to vertical by pressing the Toggle Text Orientation Button in the Options Bar.

Let’s talk about these processes more in-depth with a few demonstrations.

Typically when using the Type Tool, you’d write horizontally. Of course, that’s how we read, so it makes sense that’s how you’d write. But sometimes, you might want to write vertically. It’s easy to do using Photoshop’s Vertical Type Tool.

With your document ready to be written on, click and hold the Type Tool icon in the toolbar to reveal other Type options.

Choose the Vertical Type Tool (T).

In the Options Bar, the text alignment tools are now vertical to reflect the Vertical Type Tool being selected.

The Type Tool’s cursor will change to suit its new vertical direction instead of the typically horizontal direction of writing.

You can write using Point Text by clicking once on your canvas. This inserts placeholder text vertically.

Writing vertically may create hard-to-read text. One word is easy to read; however, typing multiple words using only the Spacebar between them hinders readability.

I’ve written “Hello” and “Vertical Text” as examples. The spacing between two words is hard to make out, which makes it hard to read.

If you type with the Vertical Type Tool and press Enter between words — how you would make a line break for horizontal text — the new line of text moves left of the first line. Since, in English, we read left to right, this also hinders readability.

See my example where I’ve written “Hello Vertical Text” with a line break between each word.

Using Paragraph Text creates a similar result. Click and drag the Vertical Type Tool across your canvas to create Paragraph Text. The text box will first fill with placeholder text.

Type your text in the text box, and you’ll notice, again, that the typing starts on the right of the box, and each new word moves left. Punctuation marks are placed in the space below the letter, rather than tight to the letter like with horizontal text.

My example reads, “Hello, here is a tutorial about vertical text.”

The Vertical Type Tool is a great tool for writing a few words in a creative way that works well in certain situations.

When you need to convert your text from horizontal to vertical or vice versa, Photoshop offers a very quick way to do that.

First, select or highlight the text you wish to convert.

Then, with either the Vertical or Horizontal Type Tool selected, go to the Options Bar at the top of the workspace.

Next to the font selection dropdown, click Toggle text orientation.

Your text will immediately convert to either horizontal or vertical, depending on its original format. You can toggle this button infinite times to revert your text back and forth.

To avoid the readability issues when using the Vertical Type Tool, you can rotate the horizontal text.

This keeps the formatting the same, ensuring better readability, but rotates all the text, so the letters are now on their sides, with the rows of text being vertical rather than horizontal. It may mean your readers have to turn their heads slightly to read the text, but the readability is better.

To rotate text, you must first write some horizontal text. Select the Type Tool and set it to Horizontal Type Tool.

Type your text using either Point Text (click and type) or Paragraph Text (click and drag to make a text box to type into).

To rotate the Paragraph Text, it is easiest first to resize the text box, so it fits tighter to your text. Hover over the farthest corner anchor from the text until the cursor changes to opposite-facing arrows.

Click and drag the text box until it is smaller.

You can rotate Paragraph Text while the Type Tool is selected or also by selecting the Move Tool (V) to select the text.

Using either tool, select the text to reveal the text box. Then hover the cursor just outside any corner anchor point.

When the cursor changes to two arrows connected by a rounded line, click and drag the text box sideways.

As you drag to rotate the text, a small box will appear with the angle’s degree.

Holding Shift while dragging to rotate will rotate in segments of 15 degrees.

This helps to ensure the text snaps to a right-angle if you’re rotating to create vertical text.

To rotate text written as Point Text, you can only rotate using the Move Tool (V) rather than by also selecting the Type Tool. Apart from that, the process is the same as with Paragraph Text.

It is easy to rotate any type of text you’ve written using this method.

Now with this method, you can rotate your entire text layer as one, but if you want to get more creative with it you can try rotating a single letter at a time. I share how to do that in my guide to flipping, scaling, and rotating text in Photoshop.