From the course: Android Studio Essential Training 2020

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Clone a GitHub repository

Clone a GitHub repository

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Clone a GitHub repository

- [Instructor] Android Studio's Git integration lets you easily clone existing repositories, making your own copy of the repository on your local development system. To work with this, go to GitHub in your browser and select a particular repository. I'm going to use a repository from another course. These are the exercise files for a course that describes how to build a simple Android app using Jetpack libraries, reusable components from Google. You can follow along with this repository or any other repository you select. On this page, click the Code button, and then click this button to copy this URL to the clipboard. You won't see any visual feedback when you do that, but the URL will be copied. Now go to Android Studio's welcome screen and click on Get from Version Control and paste the URL into that text box. In the directory setting, you can choose where you're going to put your copy of the repository. I'm going…

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