Summary
The Android development environment can be a bit intimidating at times. Luckily, you need only a subset of the available options to get started, and the last few pages of this chapter should have given you enough information to get started with some basic coding.
The big lesson to take away from this chapter is how the pieces fit together. The JDK and the Android SDK provide the basis for all Android development. They offer the tools to compile, deploy, and run applications on emulator instances and devices. To speed up development, we use Eclipse along with the ADT plug-in, which does all the hard work we'd otherwise have to do on the command line with the JDK and SDK tools. Eclipse itself is built on a few core concepts: workspaces, ...
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