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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

Creating an account at the AdMob website

AdMob is one way to incorporate advertisements in our Android application. To make use of AdMob, the first thing we need to do is to register and get an account for ourselves. To register, visit the http://www.admob.com website and register on it. On the right-hand side, click on Sign up with AdMob, and then fill up the form and register.

The following screenshot shows the sign up form:

Creating an account at the AdMob website

We can use our existing Google ID if we have, else the preceding steps will create one and link it with the AdMob account.

Adding Site/Application

Once we have created our account, we need to add a Site/Application (basically, it identifies or acts as unique handle for ads networks for the ads they place). To add Site/Application we perform the following steps:

Adding Site/Application
  1. Navigate to Add Site/App from the Sites & Apps menu, as shown in the preceding screenshot. The Add Site/App screen will appear, as shown in the following screenshot:
    Adding Site/Application
  2. Select Android App, as shown in the preceding...