Ok, now that you’ve go the SDK installed, its time to get familiar with the Eclipse IDE. To help you with that I’ve prepared a short video in which I go through the eclipse IDE, point out a few things, and click a few others. In the next post, we’ll create our application! ...
Now that we’ve got some planning underway, let’s get to work. The first piece is the homescreen of the app. Let’s take a look at that mock-up we drew earlier: Before we do any work on making that app happen, let’s have a quick crash course in Android layout development. Android layouts can be designed in ...
development, android, planning, tutorial, HGI Many people ask me how to get started in Android application development. As a result, I’ve always wanted to write a tutorial for Android beginners to help them accomplish that. Such an undertaking is easier said than done, but here it goes. For this tutorial, I’m mixing media types. I go over some of the important stuff ...
So you’ve got your API key in hand and you’re ready to develop an app. What’s next? We’ll we’ve got to get a Google Map displayed on the screen. This will serve as the base layer for the UI of our map. On top of that, we can plot points, squares, unicorns, or whatever we ...
Lately I’ve been finding myself working on a lot of location-sensitive Android applications. Thankfully Google has an open API for their Maps addon to Android that allows you to easily create applications with a Google Map at its base. Over the next few editions of the Android Development Center we will give you all the ...