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Intro To Android

Android is an open source software stack for mobile devices based on Linux. It includes tools for app development in Java using Eclipse. An Android app contains activities, views, intents and other components. The app life cycle involves callback methods to handle state changes. Apps are packaged in APK files and run in a virtual machine on the device. Sample code and tutorials are available to help developers get started with Android.

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Intro To Android

Android is an open source software stack for mobile devices based on Linux. It includes tools for app development in Java using Eclipse. An Android app contains activities, views, intents and other components. The app life cycle involves callback methods to handle state changes. Apps are packaged in APK files and run in a virtual machine on the device. Sample code and tutorials are available to help developers get started with Android.

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Introduction to Android

Contents

What is Android? Setting up for Android Development Anatomy of an Android App Hello World on Android Where to go from here

What is Android? 1 of 2

History

Google acquires Android, Inc July 2005 Google forms Open Handset Alliance - Nov 2007 Release 1.0 of SDK Sept. 2008 Google releases Android source code Oct 2008 T-Mobile G-1 phone released in US Oct 2008

http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Android

What is Android? 2 of 2

Concepts / Philosophy

Complete software stack based on Linux kernel 2.6.24 Feature-rich Application Framework Dalvik virtual machine optimized for Android / mobile device architecture Full, well-documented development environment

http://developer.android.com/guide/basics/what

Android Development Prerequisites


Java JDK 5 or 6 (JRE is not sufficient!) Eclipse 3.3 or higher (note: no current Netbeans support) Android SDK (latest official release is R1.1)

Android Development Setup (Eclipse)


Setup software update site Download and install current plugin Add SDK path to Preferences -> Android

http://developer.android.com/sdk/1.1_r1/installing.

Android Development Key Concepts 1 of 2

Activity

User interface 'container' essentially a screen A simple or compound component which is used by an activity e.g. lists, buttons, grids, text boxes (like a 'control' in Symbian) Objects which can be used to launch activities and to pass data to sub-activities

View

Intent

Android Development Key Concepts 2 of 2

Service

Content Provider

Non-UI component which provides ancillary functionality Can be same or different process Mechanism to share data across different applications (app data is private) Bind data to UI views

Adapters

SQLlite database

Android Development App Structure

Application Manifest

Specifies Activities, Intents and Permissions defined as part of the app drawable: contains graphics resources layout: contains UI layout information values: contains data content, e.g. string values Used to store files accessed in raw form

Resources

Assets

Android Application Architecture


Each application runs as a separate (Linux) process Application Life Cycle

Apps implement callback methods in response to system events (e.g. when processes get stopped / paused / restarted by Application Manager for resource management purposes) Allows applications to persist / restore their state

Android Development Deployment

Application package files (.APK)


created via Android Asset Packaging Tool (AAPT) Eclipse invokes AAPT automatically

Android Development Tools


Android Emulator Android Debug Bridge (ADB)

Used for installing and debugging Android apps Used to create installables

Android Asset Packaging Tool (AAPT)

http://

Android Development Tutorials and Sample Code

Hello World http://developer.android.com/guide/tutorials/hello Notepad Tutorial http:// developer.android.com/guide/tutorials/notepad/in API Demos is your friend!!!

Android Development Useful links


http://developer.android.com/ http://www.androiddevelopment.org/

Android Advanced Topics

Android is Open Source!

Git repository available

Extending Android

Java Native Interface (JNI) is available

Android News

Android SDK 1.5 pre-release now available

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