Therefore it's essential to understand how to give back and improve the Open Source projects that we use. We'll use an Open Source contribution for context.Īndroid developers use Open Source projects to speed up development or enable functionality that is otherwise impractical to build. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to use GitHub with Android Studio. To verify that it is connected to the remote on GitHub, click the 'Settings' gear in the top right-hand corner and you should see the GitHub remote in the 'Remotes' section.Android Studio makes it easy to push changes to your favorite Open Source, professional, or personal projects on GitHub. Once that's done, you can double click the new bookmark and use SourceTree as you normally would.

You can either clone it to a new location, or add the directory manually in the Local tab. Since this was just a test repo, I'll move it to the trash.)Īdding an Existing Repo that Has a Corresponding Remote to SourceTreeįor some reason if you click 'Clone' next to a repo you already have on your local machine and select the existing directory, it won't connect the remote repo with your existing copy.

Select 'Delete' (When you do that, you'll be asked whether you'd just like to remove the bookmark from SourceTree and leave the repo on your machine, or also move the repo to the Trash.

Since this was just a test repo, I'll delete it from my machine. If it doesn't, double click on the bookmark in the list in the 'Local' tab. The repo will be cloned to your local machine and should open in a new window when it's done.

Name: (This is the name of the bookmark that represents the repo in SourceTree).

Destination Path: (This is the location on your computer that you'd like the repo to be cloned to.).

Source URL: (Leave this at its default.

Click the 'Clone' link next to 'My-First-GitHub-Site' (or the repo you'd like to clone).

I'll clone the 'My-First-GitHub-Site' to my local machine with SourceTree.

Now, you can click 'Clone' to clone one to your local machine. Click the 'Remote' tab to see your repositories.Click the 'Gear' icon in the top right corner and select 'Settings'.If you do choose to use SourceTree as a GUI Git client, you'll need to add your GitHub credentials to SourceTree.

Connect github to android studio