1.0 Introduction
Importing an Android Studio project into Git is easy. First create the project or import an existing project in Android Studio. In this case a placeholder project HelloWorld was created. The directory listing of the project root directory looks like this.
$ ls -lsa total 60 4 drwxrwxr-x 6 user1 user1 4096 Mar 31 17:09 . 4 drwxrwxr-x 4 user1 user1 4096 Mar 31 17:02 .. 4 drwxrwxr-x 5 user1 user1 4096 Mar 31 17:07 app 4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 436 Mar 31 17:02 build.gradle 4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 81 Mar 31 17:02 .gitignore 4 drwxrwxr-x 3 user1 user1 4096 Mar 31 17:02 gradle 4 drwxrwxr-x 3 user1 user1 4096 Mar 31 17:03 .gradle 4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 855 Mar 31 17:02 gradle.properties 8 -rwxrw-r-- 1 user1 user1 5080 Mar 31 17:02 gradlew 4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 2404 Mar 31 17:02 gradlew.bat 4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 828 Mar 31 17:07 HelloWorld.iml 4 drwxrwxr-x 5 user1 user1 4096 Mar 31 17:07 .idea 4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 426 Mar 31 17:02 local.properties 4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 15 Mar 31 17:02 settings.gradle
2.0 .gitignore file
Android Studio creates a .gitignore file in the project root directory. The contents are,
$ cat .gitignore .gradle /local.properties /.idea/workspace.xml /.idea/libraries .DS_Store /build
3.0 Make repository
With the project infrastructure in place, we make the repository.
$ git init Initialized empty Git repository in /home/user1/projects/HelloWorld/.git/ $ git add -n . add '.gitignore' add '.idea/.name' add '.idea/compiler.xml' add '.idea/copyright/profiles_settings.xml' add '.idea/encodings.xml' add '.idea/gradle.xml' add '.idea/misc.xml' add '.idea/modules.xml' add '.idea/scopes/scope_settings.xml' add '.idea/vcs.xml' add 'HelloWorld.iml' add 'app/.gitignore' add 'app/app.iml' add 'app/build.gradle' add 'app/proguard-rules.pro' add 'app/src/androidTest/java/in/softprayog/helloworld/ApplicationTest.java' add 'app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml' add 'app/src/main/java/in/softprayog/helloworld/HelloActivity.java' add 'app/src/main/res/layout/activity_hello.xml' add 'app/src/main/res/menu/menu_hello.xml' add 'app/src/main/res/mipmap-hdpi/ic_launcher.png' add 'app/src/main/res/mipmap-mdpi/ic_launcher.png' add 'app/src/main/res/mipmap-xhdpi/ic_launcher.png' add 'app/src/main/res/mipmap-xxhdpi/ic_launcher.png' add 'app/src/main/res/values-w820dp/dimens.xml' add 'app/src/main/res/values/dimens.xml' add 'app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml' add 'app/src/main/res/values/styles.xml' add 'build.gradle' add 'gradle.properties' add 'gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar' add 'gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties' add 'gradlew' add 'gradlew.bat' add 'settings.gradle' $ git add . $ git commit -m "First commit." [master (root-commit) 8030b98] First commit. 35 files changed, 669 insertions(+) create mode 100644 .gitignore create mode 100644 .idea/.name create mode 100644 .idea/compiler.xml create mode 100644 .idea/copyright/profiles_settings.xml create mode 100644 .idea/encodings.xml create mode 100644 .idea/gradle.xml create mode 100644 .idea/misc.xml create mode 100644 .idea/modules.xml create mode 100644 .idea/scopes/scope_settings.xml create mode 100644 .idea/vcs.xml create mode 100644 HelloWorld.iml create mode 100644 app/.gitignore create mode 100644 app/app.iml create mode 100644 app/build.gradle create mode 100644 app/proguard-rules.pro create mode 100644 app/src/androidTest/java/in/softprayog/helloworld/ApplicationTest.java create mode 100644 app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml create mode 100644 app/src/main/java/in/softprayog/helloworld/HelloActivity.java create mode 100644 app/src/main/res/layout/activity_hello.xml create mode 100644 app/src/main/res/menu/menu_hello.xml create mode 100644 app/src/main/res/mipmap-hdpi/ic_launcher.png create mode 100644 app/src/main/res/mipmap-mdpi/ic_launcher.png create mode 100644 app/src/main/res/mipmap-xhdpi/ic_launcher.png create mode 100644 app/src/main/res/mipmap-xxhdpi/ic_launcher.png create mode 100644 app/src/main/res/values-w820dp/dimens.xml create mode 100644 app/src/main/res/values/dimens.xml create mode 100644 app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml create mode 100644 app/src/main/res/values/styles.xml create mode 100644 build.gradle create mode 100644 gradle.properties create mode 100644 gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar create mode 100644 gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties create mode 100755 gradlew create mode 100644 gradlew.bat create mode 100644 settings.gradle
4.0 Register Version Control in Android Studio
We can register that the project is under version control in Git in Andoid Studio. Go to File -> Settings -> Version Control. In the right column, there is Unregistered Git root: <project root directory> and a button Add root. Click on Add root. Click OK to complete.
