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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)
9
Index

Project explorer

The project explorer is a tool to view all folders and files under a project. By double-clicking the item, one can open and edit the file. When we create a new project, which will be discussed thoroughly in Chapter 3,Creating a New Project, the ADT will automatically create all these default folders and files, as shown in the following screenshot. Depending on the project, we may ignore or modify all these files. These are brief descriptions of the default folders and files in your Android project:

Project explorer

Project explorer

The table that follows contains the brief description of the important folders and files available in the project tree:

Folder

Functions

/src

the Java codes are here

/gen

generated automatically

/assets

put your fonts, videos, sounds here. Is more like a file system and can also place css, javascript files and so on.

/libs

external library (normally in JAR)

/res

images, layout, and global variables

/drawable-xhdpi

for extra...