Android 4.0 Development Tutorial

Android 4.0 Development Tutorial

Development with Android Gingerbread and Eclipse

This tutorial describes how to create Android applications with Eclipse. It is based on Eclipse 3.7 (Indigo), Java 1.6 and Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich).

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Table of Contents

1. What is Android?

1.1. Android Operation System

1.2. Important Android components

1.3. Dalvik Virtual Machine

1.4. Security and permissions

2. Android Application Architecture

2.1. AndroidManifest.xml

2.2. R.java, Resources and Assets

2.3. Reference to resources in XML files

2.4. Activities and Layouts

2.5. Activities and Lifecycle

2.6. Context

3. Installation

3.1. Eclipse and automatic Android SDK

3.2. Manually install Android SDK

3.3. Install a specific Android version

3.4. Android Source Code

4. Using the Emulator

4.1. Create an Android Emulator Device

4.2. Emulator Shortcuts

4.3. Performance

5. Error handling and typical problems

5.1. Clean Project

5.2. LogCat

5.3. Emulator does not start

5.4. Error message for @override

5.5. Missing Imports

5.6. Eclipse Tips

6. Your first Android project

6.1. Create Project

6.2. Two faces of things

6.3. Create attributes

6.4. Add UI Elements

6.5. Edit UI properties

6.6. Code your application

6.7. Start Project

7. Starting an deployed application

8. Menus and Action Bar

8.1. Definition of menu entries

8.2. Action bar tabs

8.3. Context menus

9. Tutorial: Menus and Action Bar

9.1. Project

9.2. Add a menu XML resource

10. Preferences

11. Tutorial: Preferences

11.1. Using preferences

11.2. Run

12. Dialogs via the AlertDialog

13. Layouts

14. TableLayout

14.1. Overview

14.2. Example

15. ContentProvider

15.1. Overview

15.2. Create contacts on your emulator

15.3. Using the Contact Content Provider

16. ScrollView

17. Fragments

17.1. Overview

17.2. When to use Fragments

18. Fragments Tutorial

18.1. Project and Overview

18.2. Create layouts

18.3. Create Fragment classes

18.4. Activities

18.5. Run

19. DDMS perspective and important views

19.1. DDMS - Dalvik Debug Monitor Server

19.2. LogCat View

19.3. File explorer

20. Shell

20.1. Android Debugging Bridge - Shell

20.2. Uninstall an application via adb

20.3. Emulator Console via telnet

21. Deploy your application on a real device

22. Thank you

23. Questions and Discussion

24. Links and Literature

24.1. Source Code

24.2. Android Resources

24.3. vogella Resources