Android Application Primer Tutorial
Android Applications run on many of today’s mobile (smart) phones. More and more the Internet traffic of the world arises because of mobile phone usage.
This video is a primer showing a “stream-of-consciousness” view of installing the necessary software components on a Windows laptop in order to create an Android Application that will run on many of today’s (smart) mobile phones. These components, for my setup, include:
- Java Runtime Environment
- Eclipse IDE
- Android SDK
- Android ADT Plugin
When doing your research and development on your favourite search engine enter
“Android SDK” “Eclipse” “Java”
to find out more. Here is one good relevant page.
Below is a summary of the “slides” of the video above (NB. as you install you may come across some/all of these scenarios, but it may or may not be in the order shown in this video):
- Download Java Runtime
- Eclipse Zip File
- Android SDK Manager
- Eclipse ADT Plugin
- Android App: Configure Launcher Icon
- Android App: activity_main.xml
- Android App: Run As – Android Application
- Android App: MainActivity.java
- Android App: Simulator Loading
- Android App: Uploading and Installing the .apk
- Android App: Hello World! on Simulator
Word of advice is that the simulator can be quite slow, and you may (really) need to wait for it!
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