Schogini Introducing Android at CETEX 2010

Google’s Android is a Smart Phone OS on which we can build mobile applications using Android Development Tool(ADT) for Eclipse Editor and Android SDK.

1. Install Java from http://developers.sun.com/downloads (I am using Java EE 6 SDK)
2. Download Eclipse (a Java based editor) from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads
   (I am using Eclipse Java EE IDE for Web Developers.)
   Unzip to c:\eclipse
   Start eclipse by clicking on eclipse.exe and specify workspace as c:\andoridapps
   and then click on workbench
3. Download Google Android SDK from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html (I use Windows)
4. Unzip and copy files to c:\android
5. Set your Windows shell PATH to include ;c:\android (google for specific Windows info)
6. Run c:\android\SDK Setup.exe
7. Come to settings in check mark https and do an Update all
   Click on Virtual Devices and click New, give it a name "myphone" and choose target API 6
8. Select the newly created phone and click start
9. Install ADT Eclipse plugin
   Start Eclipse, choose Help Install New Software, enter Android to get to
   Android Plugin – https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse
   click next to install
   Restart Eclipse
10. Eclipse Windows preferences Android SDK location enter c:\android
11. File New Project, type Other and choose “Android Project”
    Project name “SreeFirst”
    Create new project workspace
    Use default location yes
    Choose target API 6 (Same as the phone API version you have created above)
    Application name: test.schogini.android.sree
    Package name: Test.Sree
    Check mark create activity
    Activity name: SreeFirst
    OK
12. Open Project Explorer (left side) and click the newly created project
    open ’src’ ‘Test.Sree’ and double click on ‘SreeFirst.java’
    Project choose clean and then Run (Ctrl+F11)
    Please wait for a few minutes for the Phone simulator load and be ready

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