Android Development

Android Development
Published on 5 February, 2012
I recently got an ASUS Slider android tablet, it’s essentially a 10.1inch touch screen tablet
with a slide out keyboard. This morning I gave a shot at making a small application for it.
Setting up the development software was very time consuming, mostly because of all the
downloads and installing that needed to be done. Things that needed to be installed included
the android SDK tools, and some SDK platforms; all of which I intergrated into eclipse with
the plugins provided. While they were installing I was familiarising myself with the android
documentation.
Once the everything was installed and running, I created my first hello world style
application. First switching my tablet to debug mode over the USB, and allowing it to install
applications from an unknown source, I created my first app, and launched it on my tablet.
the results are as follows:
A simple hello world application.
It did confuse me at first how android applications are developed, they use an XML styling
approach, rather than a programatic style where everything is hand coded. My next step is to
further understand how activities work, then I can make the button change the colour of the
text.
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