In this chapter, you will learn how to build a skeleton Cardboard project which can be a starting point for other projects in this book. We will begin with an introduction to Android Studio, the Cardboard SDK, and Java programming. We want to make sure that you're up to speed on the tools and Android projects in general. Then, we will walk you through setting up a new Cardboard project so that we don't need to repeat these details in each project. If some or all of this is already familiar to you, great! You might be able to skim it. In this chapter, we will cover the following topics: