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    Copyright
    Preface
    Before You Begin
    Ch. 1. Introduction to Android
    Ch. 2. Android Market and App Business Issues
    Ch. 3. Welcome App: Dive-Into® Eclipse and the ADT Plugin
    Introduction
    Technologies Overview
    Eclipse IDE
    Creating a New Project
    Building the Welcome App’s GUI with the ADT’s Visual Layout Editor
    Examining the main.xml File
    Running the Welcome App
    Wrap-Up
    Ch. 4. Tip Calculator App: Building an Android App with Java
    Ch. 5. Favorite Twitter® Searches App: SharedPreferences, Buttons, Nested Layouts, Intents AlertDialogs, Inflating XML Layouts and the Manifest File
    Ch. 6. Flag Quiz Game App: Assets, AssetManager, Tweened Animations, Handler, Menus and Logging Error Messages
    Ch. 7. Cannon Game App: Listening for Touches and Gestures, Manual Frame-By-Frame Animation, Graphics, Sound, Threading, SurfaceView and SurfaceHolder
    Ch. 8. SpotOn Game App: Property Animation, ViewPropertyAnimator, AnimatorListener, Thread-Safe Collections, Default SharedPreferences for an Activity
    Ch. 9. Doodlz App: Two-Dimensional Graphics, SensorManager, Multitouch Events and Toasts
    Ch. 10. Address Book App: ListActivity, AdapterViews, Adapters, Multiple Activities, SQLite, GUI Styles, Menu Resources and MenuInflater
    Ch. 11. Route Tracker App: Google Maps API, GPS, LocationManager, MapActivity, MapView and Overlay
    Ch. 12. Slideshow App: Gallery and Media Library Access, Built-In Content Providers, MediaPlayer, Image Transitions, Custom ListActivity Layouts and the View-Holder Pattern
    Ch. 13. Enhanced Slideshow App: Serializing Data, Taking Pictures with the Camera and Playing Video in a VideoView
    Ch. 14. Weather Viewer App: Web Services, JSON, Fragment, ListFragment, DialogFragment, ActionBar, Tabbed Navigation, App Widgets, Broadcast Intents and BroadcastReceivers
    Ch. 15. Pizza Ordering App: Text-to-Speech, Speech-to-Text and Telephony
    Ch. 16. Voice Recorder App: Audio Recording with MediaRecorder, Audio Playback with MediaPlayer, Sending a File as an E-Mail Attachment
    Ch. 17. Enhanced Address Book App: Connecting Devices Via Bluetooth, Using JSONObject to Create and Parse JSON-Formatted Data
    Ch. 18. Art App: OpenGL ES and 3D rendering
    Ch. 19. HTML5 Favorite Twitter Searches App: Browser-Based Mobile Apps with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and Web Storage
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    Chapter 3. Welcome App: Dive-Into® Eclipse and the ADT Plugin

    3. Welcome App: Dive-Into® Eclipse and the ADT Plugin

    Objectives

    In this chapter you’ll:

    • Learn the basics of the Eclipse IDE for writing, running and debugging your Android apps.

    • Create an Eclipse project to develop a new app.

    • Design a GUI visually (without programming) using the ADT (Android Development Tools) visual layout editor.

    • Edit the properties of GUI components.

    • Build a simple Android app and execute it on an Android Virtual Device (AVD).

    Outline

    3.1Introduction
    3.2Technologies Overview
    3.3Eclipse IDE
    3.4Creating a New Project
    3.5Building the Welcome App’s GUI with the ADT’s Visual Layout Editor
    3.6Examining the main.xml File
    3.7Running the Welcome App
    3.8Wrap-Up