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Introduction to Android development Using Eclipse and Android widgets

Ayushman Jain (ayushman_jain@in.ibm.com), Eclipse JDT/Core Committer, IBM
Ayushman Jain works on the Eclipse team at IBM India Software Labs, Bangalore, as a JDT/Core committer. He leads the Eclipse@campus initiative to evangelise Eclipse in Indian universities. He is enthusiastic about Android as a platform and encourages its use due to ease of development on Eclipse familiar environments. He is also the technical editor for a youth magazine called NOW, in circulation in Delhi, India. For NOW, he has reviewed HTC phones based on Android.

Summary:  This tutorial is intended for anyone interested in beginning Android development on Eclipse using the Android development tools plug-in. It offers insight into the salient features of an Android app, along with a brief explanation of its basic components. The Android process is introduced for developing rich UIs for the apps, as widgets. Finally, it showcases how easy it is to test the developed app by deploying it on an Android device simulator included in the SDK.

Date:  16 Nov 2010
Level:  Introductory PDF:  A4 and Letter (612 KB | 31 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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Ayushman Jain works on the Eclipse team at IBM India Software Labs, Bangalore, as a JDT/Core committer. He leads the Eclipse@campus initiative to evangelise Eclipse in Indian universities. He is enthusiastic about Android as a platform and encourages its use due to ease of development on Eclipse familiar environments. He is also the technical editor for a youth magazine called NOW, in circulation in Delhi, India. For NOW, he has reviewed HTC phones based on Android.

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