26 CHAPTER 1: Setting Up Your Android App Development System
Now that Audacity 2.0.5 is installed, you can launch the audio production software and make sure
that it’s working on your system.
If you like, you can follow the same work process that we did with Eclipse and place a quick launch
shortcut icon on your Taskbar by right-clicking on the Audacity 2.0 icon and selecting Pin to Taskbar.
You can reposition launch icons by dragging them into any position you prefer on the Taskbar.
- Launch Audacity via your quick launch icon, or by double-clicking the icon
on your desktop or in your Windows Explorer utility. You should see a new
blank project screen, as shown in Figure 1-17, open up on your desktop.
Figure 1-17. Launching the Audacity 2.0.5 for Windows software to make sure that it will run on your system
Next, let’s go and download the leading open source digital video software package, EditShare
Lightworks 11.5, which is available for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh, in both 32-bit and 64-bit
versions.
Professional Digital Video Editing: EditShare Lightworks
EditShare Lightworks used to be an expensive digital video editing and special effects software, and
to this day, it competes “head-to-head” with leading digital video editing packages (FinalCut Pro
X and After Effects). Digital video editing software is useful for Android development, as the video
formats it supports are also integrated into the Android OS.
You can find out more about this leading digital video editing FX software package on the EditShare
web site at: http://www.editshare.com, or the Lightworks web site at: http://www.lwks.com, where you can also
sign up to get a copy of the software and then download it. The home page is shown in Figure 1-18.