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- This dialog allows you to configure your Android application icon using an
Image, Clipart, or Text, select a custom image file, automatically trim blank
space around your icon, add additional padding, crop or center the icon,
and determine the shape of your icon and the background color used. Since
we are going to learn how to do all of this “from scratch” using XML and
GIMP, as well as related concepts such as alpha channel support, which
allows transparent areas around your icon, I am simply going to accept these
default settings. We’ll use the green Android robot for now as a placeholder
until I can show you how your you can access your application icon content
and settings from inside of your Android project. - Once you click the Next button you will be taken to the fourth dialog in the
series, which is the Create Activity dialog, which is shown in Figure 3-6. This
dialog will allow you to specify what kind of UI design your Activity class will
have installed in it, which will determine what Java code and XML mark-up
Eclipse writes for you.
Figure 3-5. The Configure Launcher Icon dialog, showing the default selected options