Android Development Tools for Eclipse

By the end of this book you will know how to use Eclipse tools for developing, debugging, and signing Android applications for distribution. Widely adopted by programmers across the world, this is your chance to join them.

Overview

• Build Android applications using ADT for Eclipse
• Generate Android application skeleton code using wizards
• Advertise and monetize your applications

In Detail

The increase in Android’s popularity with every passing day cannot be understated. This has resulted in a large programmer base willing to contribute to its success. Eclipse has a powerful IDE and has been adopted widely by programmers across the globe. The focus of ADT is to use existing familiar territory and ease development of Android applications. In this sense, ADT provides a one stop solution for Android application development.

Android Development Tools for Eclipse is a step-by-step guide that provides you with hands-on, practical, and to the point discussion and steps for using Eclipse tools for developing, debugging, and signing Android applications for distribution. It also teaches you to incorporate advertisements to monetize your applications. Every concept and its usage has been demonstrated in this book by implementing them via real world applications.

Android Development Tools for Eclipse starts with the installation of ADT, and then discusses important tools before guiding you through Android application development from scratch, demonstrating different concepts and implementation before finally helping you distribute your applications in the Android market. You will start the development of your first application, explore project structure, and add different widgets including multimedia ones.

You will learn everything about developing, debugging, testing, distributing, and monetizing your Android application using Eclipse ADT.

What you will learn from this book

• Install ADT and Eclipse
• Learn about important tools in the ADT environment and their usage
• Create a new project, explore its structure, add simple widgets, then compile, debug, and run the application
• Include multimedia elements and handle multiple screens in your application
• Add a menu and use it to invoke the Preference Screen and handle radio and checkbox preferences
• Handle multiple screen types and orientations
• Add an external library and use it by incorporating advertisements (AdMob Library)
• Learn how to prepare your application for release: compiling, key generation, signing, aligning, and distribution

Approach

A standard tutorial aimed at developing Android applications in a practical manner.

Who this book is written for

Android Development Tools for Eclipse is aimed at beginners and existing developers who want to learn more about Android development. It is assumed that you have experience in Java programming and that you have used IDE for development.

在本書結束時，您將學會如何使用Eclipse工具來開發、調試和簽署Android應用程式以供分發。這是一個被全球程式設計師廣泛採用的機會，您也可以加入他們的行列。

概述：
- 使用Eclipse的ADT建立Android應用程式
- 使用精靈生成Android應用程式的骨架程式碼
- 宣傳和獲利您的應用程式

詳細內容：
Android的普及度與日俱增，這對於其成功來說具有重要意義。Eclipse是一個功能強大的整合開發環境，被全球程式設計師廣泛採用。ADT的重點是利用現有的熟悉領域，並簡化Android應用程式的開發。在這方面，ADT為Android應用程式開發提供了一站式解決方案。

《Android Development Tools for Eclipse》是一本逐步指南，提供了實用、實際且直接的討論和步驟，教您如何使用Eclipse工具來開發、調試和簽署Android應用程式以供分發。它還教您如何加入廣告以獲利您的應用程式。本書通過實現真實世界應用程式來演示每個概念及其使用方法。

《Android Development Tools for Eclipse》從安裝ADT開始，然後討論重要工具，並引導您從頭開始進行Android應用程式開發，演示不同的概念和實現方式，最後幫助您在Android市場上分發應用程式。您將開始開發第一個應用程式，探索專案結構，並添加包括多媒體元件在內的不同小工具。

您將學習如何使用Eclipse ADT開發、調試、測試、分發和獲利您的Android應用程式。

本書將教您以下內容：
- 安裝ADT和Eclipse
- 了解ADT環境中的重要工具及其使用方法
- 創建新專案，探索其結構，添加簡單小工具，然後編譯、調試和執行應用程式
- 在應用程式中添加多媒體元素，處理多個螢幕
- 添加選單，使用它來調用偏好設定畫面，處理單選和複選偏好設定
- 處理多種螢幕類型和方向
- 添加外部程式庫並使用它，包括廣告（AdMob程式庫）
- 學習如何準備應用程式發布：編譯、金鑰生成、簽署、對齊和分發

這是一本以實用方式開發Android應用程式的標準教程。

本書適合初學者和現有開發人員，他們想更深入地了解Android開發。假設您具有Java編程經驗並且已經使用過IDE進行開發。