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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

Using the Eclipse ADT for release

Using the Eclipse Android Development Tool (ADT), all the aforementioned steps in the Preparing for release section can be done with ease. Let's prepare our DistanceConverter from the earlier chapter for release using the Eclipse ADT.

Follow the given steps:

  1. Right-click on the project DistanceConverter and then select Export from the context menu. Select Export Android Application, as shown in the following screenshot:
    Using the Eclipse ADT for release
  2. The Export wizard will now guide you through the process of signing, including the steps for selecting the private key (if already generated using the tool), or creating a new keystore and private key. Some of the following screens are captured, with the first screenshot being the creation of a keystore.
  3. Now select Create new keystore and provide the Location and Password values:
    Using the Eclipse ADT for release
  4. In the following screen we can enter other details about the key creation as specified in the next table:
    Using the Eclipse ADT for release
  5. In the Export Android Application wizard, fill in the respective...