This tutorial document provides instructions on creating an Android application in Eclipse. It explains how to install the Android SDK and Eclipse, create an Android project in Eclipse, write "Hello World" code, create an Android Virtual Device emulator, and run the application on the emulator. The tutorial is intended for beginners and walks through each step to set up the development environment and build a simple app.

1. Android Application Tutorial
Instructed on: 17-Feb-2012 | Tutorial: #02
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By : Yasmine Sherif Mahmoud
Tutorial Code: APS-02-2012
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2. • You can install the SDK from here:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
• You can install Eclipse from here:
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
>> Choose: Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers
• After installing the SDK and Eclipse.
• Open Eclipse and follow the following steps.

5. Fill in the
package name

6. Choose Any Android
version you want

7. Fill in the Application
Name
Fill in the
Choose it package name
according to the with a unique
version you three parts
chose before separated by
dots name

8. • By now you will have created the project and
you will have the following window:

9. Expand this file to
see this java file
This is where you write your java
code

10. Expand this to see the
Android Jar files

11. Expand this to see the files concerned
with the graphics and sounds of your
application

12. This is the main.xml file where you will have
the graphical layout of the application

13. That’s how the Graphical
Layout looks like. You can
control the application
layout from there

14. • Now, return to the .Java file where we will
write a Hello world code.

15. Write this three line code
instead of the one you have

16. • Before going to the next step we will create
the AVD (Android Virtual Device) or the
emulator on which we will test the
application.

19. Fill in the name
of your emulator
Choose the
target according
to the version of Fill in any size for the
the application memory card
you chose

20. Now you will
have your AVD
created.
Close the window
after that.

21. • We now have to run our application.

22. Right click on the project

23. You may have this window
so just click ok.

24. This is the AVD.
It may takes up to 2 or 3
minutes to launch so
patiently wait.
Every version has a different
emulator shape so don’t
worry if you don’t have this
shape.

25. Drag this circle to the right
to unlock

26. Click this circle
to go to the
menu

27. Here is your
Application.
Click it.

28. This is how it is going
to look like 

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