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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 audio

Before doing this exercise, copy all the sound resources to the assets folder. You may do this by copying all the mp3 files to the assets folder through the File Manager, as shown in the following screenshot:

Adding audio

Copy the MP3 files to the folder assets

Add code for btnsound in the onClick method. Add the following lines so that when the btnplay button is clicked, it will execute the method named playSound(). This method will receive a string argument as the value of the sound file name to be played.

The soundfile array variable is the variable that stores the list of the mp3 filenames, while the screennumber indicates the current number on the screen.

//when btnplay is clicked
    else if(arg0.getId()==R.id.btnsound){
      //call the method playSound
      playSound(soundfile[screennumber].toString());
    }//end btnsound clicked

The next important method is the playsound method. This method will play an mp3 sound file. The soundname parameter is the string that contains the sound...