Hour 2. Mastering the Android Development Tools

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

Using the Android documentation

Debugging applications with DDMS

Working with the Android Emulator

Using the Android Debug Bridge (ADB)

Working with Android virtual devices

Android developers are fortunate to have more than a dozen development tools at their disposal to help facilitate the design of quality applications. Understanding what tools are available and what they can be used for is a task best done early in the Android learning process, so that when you are faced with a problem, you have some clue as to which utility might be able to help you find a solution. Most of the Android development tools are integrated into Eclipse using the ADT plug-in, ...

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