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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

Adding ImageButtons

The second row in TableLayout is for the navigation buttons (previous and next) and the play sound button. ImageButton is more attractive for this kind of app. When you create an ImageButton, you will be asked to choose the image. For the first button use the image prev from the drawables. The second is sound and the last one is next. These buttons need to be added one at a time, as shown in the following screenshot:

Adding ImageButtons

Adding ImageButtons

Activate (select) one of the buttons and distribute evenly, as shown in the following screenshot. This is to make sure all the buttons are spread evenly across the screen's width.

Adding ImageButtons

Distribute weight of the ImageButtons evenly

And if you prefer, change the background of your screen. A background image has been prepared for you; it is in the drawables and is named bglight. Activate the main layout by clicking on the app title/logo on the app screen. Change the background properties by clicking on the three dots button on the right-side...