Chapter 2. Development environment

This chapter introduces the Android Development Tools chain and provides a hands-on guide to using them as we walk through creating, testing, and debugging a sample application. Upon completing this chapter, you will be familiar with using Eclipse and the Android Development Tools plug-in, navigating the Android SDK and its tools, running Android applications in the emulator, and debugging your application. With these skills in hand, we will look at the Java packages provided in the SDK to better equip you to embrace the development topics ...

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