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Processing 2: Creative Programming Cookbook

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Processing 2: Creative Programming Cookbook

Overview of this book

Processing is probably the best known creative coding environment that helps you bridge the gap between programming and art. It enables designers, artists, architects, students and many others to explore graphics programming and computational art in an easy way, thus helping you boost your creativity. "Processing 2: Creative Programming Cookbook" will guide you to explore and experience the open source Processing language and environment, helping you discover advanced features and exciting possibilities with this programming environment like never before. You'll learn the basics of 2D and 3D graphics programming, and then quickly move up to advanced topics such as audio and video visualization, computer vision, and much more with this comprehensive guide. Since its birth in 2001, Processing has grown a lot. What started out as a project by Ben Fry and Casey Reas has now become a widely used graphics programming language. Processing 2 has a lot of new and exciting features. This cookbook will guide you to explore the completely new and cool graphics engine and video library. Using the recipes in this cookbook, you will be able to build interactive art for desktop computers, Internet, and even Android devices! You don't even have to use a keyboard or mouse to interact with the art you make. The book's next-gen technologies will teach you how to design interactions with a webcam or a microphone! Isn't that amazing? "Processing 2: Creative Programming Cookbook" will guide you to explore the Processing language and environment using practical and useful recipes.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Processing 2: Creative Programming Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing the Android SDK


Before we can create Android apps, you need to do some preparations. We'll start by installing the Android SDK on our machine, and tell Processing where to find it. This is the most important step. If we don't do this, we won't be able to use the new Android mode.

How to do it...

The first thing you need to do is point your browser at http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html, and download the Android Software Development Kit (SDK) for your platform. When the SDK has finished downloading, you need to unzip it, and place it on your hard drive. I've placed it in the Documents folder in my home directory.

Go to the tools directory in the android-sdk folder, and double-click the android file. This is a Unix executable file. A terminal window will open, and the Android SDK manager will launch. Check the Android SDK Platform-tools and Android 2.3.3 (API 10) checkboxes and click the Install 22 packages... button, as shown in the following screenshot. Depending on your...