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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

Running the application on the emulator

Running the HelloU app in the emulator would need you to start the emulator first. Start the emulator that has the Android version that suits your target platform. Once the emulator is fully loaded, we can compile and run the app.

Click on the HelloU project on the project explorer (this is to activate the project). Navigate to Run in the Eclipse menu, and choose Run or press Ctrl + F11 for a shortcut. Select run as Android Application, and Enter. Wait for a couple of seconds and view your emulator. The HelloU app will appear shortly, as in shown in the following screenshot. Enter your name and tap on the Display Name! button, the Toast message will appear with the name entered on the bottom of the screen:

Running the application on the emulator

The HelloU app running in the Emulator