1.2. Hello Android!

Our first Android application will display a single line of text and one image on a single screen. It isn’t impressive, but we’re keeping it simple on purpose. We want the components of the application, and the process, to take center stage. The application we’ll build, “Hello Android,” is seen in completed form running in the emulator in figure 1.3.

Figure 1.3. The Hello Android application being run from an emulator instance and showing some simple onscreen elements: text and an image