70 CHAPTER 3: An Introduction to the Android Application Development Platform
Note If you looked at the dashboard on the developer site, you saw that Android 4.x has about an 88%
device share, and 2.3.x has the other 13% (Kindle Fire is the primary reason for this), so developing for
Android 4 OS is becoming more and more the primary target of Android developers. This makes development
considerations that you will be learning about during this book an order of magnitude easier than they were
when developers had to develop to span Android 1.x to 2.x to 3.x to 4.x to 5.0. Android 5.0 currently is in beta,
and is not in any hardware devices, so that OS version currently has a 0% market share.- The final drop-down selector allows you to choose the Android OS theme
(look and feel) you will use for your app. We will cover themes and styles
in the UI chapter, but suffice it to say you can choose a light (gray) or dark
(grey and black) app look and feel, using the “Holo Light” or “Holo Dark”
themes included with Eclipse. You can also develop your own themes once
you become more advanced in Android development. I simply accepted the
default setting of Holo Light with a Holo Dark Action Bar, which keeps your
application dark up by the black status bar at the top and uses a Light Gray
color for the body (everything else) of your application. - Now that these specifications are set, click the Next button, and proceed
to the second dialog in this series, the Configure Project dialog, shown in
Figure 3-4.