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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)
9
Index

Creating a new project

The DistanceConverter application will allow users to input distance in km/m and convert them to miles, feet, and yards simultaneously. We have already covered creating a new project in the earlier chapters, hence we will keep it very short here. Let's create a new project by navigating to File | New | Others | Android Application Project. Enter the fitting data from the following table in the corresponding wizards:

Property

Value

Application name

DistanceCon

Project Name

DistanceCon

Package Name

com.packt.ch05.distancecon

Template

BlankActivity

Activity

MainActivity

Layout

activity_main

The following screen shows some data being filled in the wizard as per the preceeding table:

Creating a new project