Hour 3. Configuring NetBeans and Eclipse with the Android SDK

What You’ll Learn in This Hour

Creating an Android emulator device

Running the emulator

• Adding the Android plug-in to NetBeans

• Adding the Android plug-in to Eclipse

This hour covers additional prerequisites needed to use the Android SDK with an IDE. We’re taking this in small steps now with plenty of figure examples to act as a quick reference for your Android programming projects to come. In this hour, you learn how to use the Android Virtual Device Manager to set up the emulator to run your Android programs. Then you learn how to add the Android SDK to NetBeans and Eclipse. The SDK was already installed in Hour 2, “Installing the Development Tools,” so if you skipped that ...

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