The Business of Android Apps Development: Making and Marketing Apps That Succeed

Example of an Android Application

The Android Developers web site has a tutorial known as “Hello, World,” which allows you to create a simple app that displays text that says anything you want it to say (the tutorial uses “Hello, World,” hence its name). You can find this tutorial at http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/hello-world.html, but I thought I would set up a program to do something a little more complex in order to demonstrate some of the concepts mentioned earlier.

This program, which I just call New Project, creates two buttons in the center of the screen. One button, labeled “Welcome,” creates a dialog that appears in the form of a small, pop-up window. The other button, marked “Website,” opens the application to a web ...