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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

Chapter 3. Creating a New Android Project

This chapter will demonstrate how to create a new Android app with a simple interaction using the button and text field. We will also write interactivity code, compile and run an app on the emulator/actual device. To illustrate this chapter, we will be creating a simple project named HelloU app.

  • Creating new Android application project string resources
  • Using the graphical layout designer
  • String resources
  • The XML layout editor
  • Widgets' interactions through the source code editor
  • Toast message
  • Running the application on the emulator
  • Running the application on an Android device
  • Getting help

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