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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 HTML to WebView

Create an HTML page using your favorite web editor, or you may just reuse the HTML page in the resources provided (in the assets folder, file name info.html). The HTML page, as shown in the following screenshot, is a simple HTML page that contains the app information. If you find that the HTML is too simple, do add your own information. In this exercise, we will put the HTML pages and the resources inside the assets folder, hence before proceeding, copy all the related materials of the HTML page into the assets folder.

Adding HTML to WebView

The HTML page in info.html

Next is to edit the source code for Info.java that resides in the folder src/net.kerul.simplenumb3r5. Add the following code to the existing template:

package net.kerul.simplenumb3r5;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.webkit.WebView;

public class Info extends Activity {
    private WebView webinfo;
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState...