Difference between open and import a project in androidstudio

Question

What is difference between open and import a project in android studio? Is there a way that we can do import of a project from command line or do all settings that is done while importing a project?

Answer 1

OPEN is to open existing projects which already have been run in Android Studio.

IMPORT is for migrating projects from other environments to Android Studio, for more information take a look on this: Migrating to Android Studio