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Android Development Tools for Eclipse

By : Khirulnizam Abd Rahman, Sanjay Shah
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Android Development Tools for Eclipse

By: Khirulnizam Abd Rahman, Sanjay Shah

Overview of this book

<p>The increase in Android's popularity with every passing day cannot be understated. This has resulted in a large programmer base willing to contribute to its success. Eclipse has a powerful IDE and has been adopted widely by programmers across the globe. The focus of ADT is to use existing familiar territory and ease development of Android applications. In this sense, ADT provides a one stop solution for Android application development.</p><p>Android Development Tools for Eclipse is a step-by-step guide that provides you with hands-on, practical, and to the point discussion and steps for using Eclipse tools for developing, debugging, and signing Android applications for distribution. It also teaches you to incorporate advertisements to monetize your applications. Every concept and its usage has been demonstrated in this book by implementing them via real world applications.</p><p></p><p>Android Development Tools for Eclipse starts with the installation of ADT, and then discusses important tools before guiding you through Android application development from scratch, demonstrating different concepts and implementation before finally helping you distribute your applications in the Android market. You will start the development of your first application, explore project structure, and add different widgets including multimedia ones.</p><p></p><p>You will learn everything about developing, debugging, testing, distributing, and monetizing your Android application using Eclipse ADT.</p>
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Index

Running the application on an Android device

To run and deploy on a real device, first install the driver of the device. This varies as per device model and manufacturer.

These are some links you could refer:

Make sure the Android phone is connected to the computer through the USB cable. To check whether the phone is properly connected to your PC and in debug mode, please switch to the DDMS perspective.

Running the application on an Android device

The Android phone as appear in the DDMS.

If everything goes well, then run the app. Notice that a window appears asking you to select between the emulator and a real Android device; select the Android device. A few seconds later, the app will be running in the Android phone.

Running the application on an Android device

HelloU app in the actual Android device. Getting help

The following are some references to guide you on using the Eclipse and ADT. You can spend some time going through the documentation...