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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 5. Adding RadioButton, CheckBox, Menu, and Preferences

Are you excited enough? If not, you should be; we are half way through and ready to explore some more of the widgets that are commonly used and have a lot of significance in any application. The things to be covered in this chapter are adding a menu, check box, radio button, and preference to the application. We will make use of these widgets and create the DistanceConverter application .The main objective of this application is to convert distance entered in km/m to mile/foot and yards. The following are the steps that we cover in this chapter to successfully create the DistanceConverter application:

  • Creating a project: DistanceConverter
  • Adding a RadioGroup.RadioButton
  • Adding a CheckBox
  • Adding a menu
  • Defining the Strings
  • Defining the Preferences screen
  • Hook up
  • Binding menu and Preference
  • Getting values from Preference
  • Running the application