Chapter     3

Java for Android Primer: Enhancing Our Hello World Application

In this chapter, we will take the Hello World application that we created in the previous chapter using the New Android Application Project helper, and add in our own Java code to make it much more interesting. At the same time, we are also going to use this chapter to give those readers who are not Java programmers a high-level overview of the various code structures that we will be using in this book via the Java programming language and its objects, variables, methods, classes, packages, modifiers, and so on.

I am going to try and seamlessly meld these two objectives, enhancing our Hello World app and summarizing Java concepts at a high level, into one cohesive chapter ...

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