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Hosting your projects on GitHub is a great way to share your code with others. In this video we'll see how to send our Android Studio projects to GitHub.
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Hi, I'm Ben.
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In this workshop, we'll learn all about
how to manage our GitHub projects,
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without leaving Android Studio.
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Also, since Android Studio is built
on top of IntelliJ IDEA, most of this
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workshop should apply to IntelliJ IDEA for
your Java projects as well.
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This workshop will assume that you
already have a good understanding
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of the basics of Git and
how to use GitHub.
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If you're not yet
familiar with those, I encourage you
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to check out the Git basics course
linked in the teacher's notes.
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We'll also tackle how to fix some
typical Gradle build issues, so
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a little Gradle knowledge
will be useful as well.
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The first thing that we're gonna go over,
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is how to send a project from
Android Studio to GitHub.
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In order to do that, we'll need two
things, a GitHub account and a project.
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Let's create a new project for
this called GitHubTest and
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accept all the default options.
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Before we go on, let's quickly
sync our project with Gradle.
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We want to include the module files and
version control, but they haven't yet
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been created yet.
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Syncing the project will create them for
us.
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That way, they'll be added to
version control from the start and
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we won't have to add them later.
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Now that we have our project,
we need to set it up with version control.
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Let's go to the VCS menu, which stands for
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version control systems, and
select Enable Version Control Integration.
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Since we'll be pushing
this project to GitHub,
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let's pick Git as the version
control system and hit OK.
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We now have a local git repository
located in our project's root folder.
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That's great, but
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we probably don't want to version
control every file in our project.
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For example the build folder
is recreated from source code
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any time we build the app.
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Since any contributors
will just rebuild this,
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we don't need to include
this in version control.
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Let's change to the project perspective
and add an appropriate .gitignore file
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to tell Git which files and folders we
don't want to include in version control.
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It looks like Android Studio has already
created a .gitignore file for us.
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Let's open it.
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Awesome, we're already ignoring
all the appropriate files.
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We can even see our
build folder right here.
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It also looks like there's a plug-in,
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which can help us out
with our .gitignore file.
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Let's check it out.
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Looks like it has some useful features.
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It would be nice if we
could tell which files and
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folders are ignored
just by their coloring.
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Let's go ahead and install it.
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We'll have to restart Android Studio
to let the plug-in take effect.
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This plug-in definitely isn't required.
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So, if you don't want it,
that's perfectly okay.
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Cool, now the ignored
files are grayed out so
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we can easily distinguish them from
the files included in version control.
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We also give an appropriate icon for
our .gitignore file.
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We've created our local Git repository and
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we've verified that we have
an appropriate .gitignore file.
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We are now ready to send
our project to GitHub.
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Let's go back to the VCS menu,
and select import, and
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into version control, and
then Share Project On GitHub.
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Now we just login to our GitHub account.
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Give a name and a description for
our project and click Share.
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This next dialogue lets us
choose which files we would like
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to include in our initial commit.
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Just as we would expect,
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none of the files specified in
our .gitignore are on this list.
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We're fine to leave them all checked and
hit OK.
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Our project has now been showed on GitHub.
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We can click on the link on
the top right to see our project.
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Remember, if you're using a free account
this project is publicly available.
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In the next video we'll
go over the workflow for
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making changes to an existing project.
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