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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 7. Adding an External Library

An Android application cannot achieve everything on its own, it will always need the company of external jars/libraries to achieve different goals and serve various purposes. Almost every free Android application published on store has advertisements embedded in it, which makes use of external components to achieve it. Incorporating advertisements in the Android application is a vital aspect of today's application development. In this chapter, we will continue on our DistanceConverter application developed from the previous chapters, and make use of an external library, AdMob, to incorporate advertisements in our application. The coverage will include the following:

  • Creating an account at the AdMob site
  • Adding Site/Application
  • Adding the Advertisement Meditation Network
  • Adding AdMob in the application
  • Making changes in the manifest file
  • Adding the AdMob widget/view in the layout file
  • Running the application