Android Programming Tutorials

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We experiment with an option menu (the kind that appears when you press the MENU button on a phone) and display a pop-up messa ...

We add logic to the service to watch for posts from specific people our "BFFs" – and display an icon in the status bar when we ...

We create a simple app widget (i.e., interactive element for the home screen) for LunchList, one that displays the name of a r ...

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PART I – Introductory Tutorials ...

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TUTORIAL 1 Your First Android Project There are two major steps for getting started with Android: You need to install the Andro ...

Your First Android Project Step #1: Eclipse..................................................................................... ...

Your First Android Project Figure 2. Eclipse New Project Wizard, Android Project Fill in the following: The name of the project ...

Your First Android Project The name of the initial activity to create (e.g., Now) Figure 3. Eclipse New Project Wizard, Androi ...

Your First Android Project Step #2: Command Line........................................................................ Here is ...

Your First Android Project For your development machine, you will need to pick a suitable target, and you may wish to change the ...

Your First Android Project If you have more than one emulator AVD or device available, you will then get an option to choose whi ...