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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

Code editor

This is the tool where the programming is cooked. Several important features of the Eclipse code editor (programmers love to have) are intelligence and the error marker (refer screenshot to follow). Code completion suggests objects, methods or variables available to be incorporated in our code, while the error marker will notify any syntax error immediately without having to compile the code. These features help a lot for faster programming:

Code editor

The code editor

The code editor's appearance is customizable to suit your style and preference. To change the editor's environment, such as the background color or the code's font styles, right-click on the editor and choose Preferences, and then navigate to General | Appearance | Colors and Fonts. Then click on Edit to customize, refer the following screenshot:

Code editor

Customizing the Code Editor's appearance

There are also several other XML code editors that help during design and development. They come in two flavors: GUI based...