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First Steps with the Android SDK

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The Android SDK provides a set of tools that allows creating applications in no time. This chapter will guide you through the process of building a simple Android application with the SDK tools. This involves the following steps:

  1. 1.

    Setting up the development environment

  2. 2.

    Creating a new project in Eclipse and writing our code

  3. 3.

    Running the application on the emulator or on a device

  4. 4.

    Debugging and profiling the application Let’s start with setting up the development environment.

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Zechner, M. (2011). First Steps with the Android SDK. In: Beginning Android Games. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-3043-4_2

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