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Android, , About the Tutorial, Android is an open-source, Linux-based operating system for mobile devices such as, smartphones and tablet computers. Android was developed by the Open Handset Alliance,, led by Google, and other companies., This tutorial will teach you the basic Android programming and will also take you through, some advance concepts related to Android application development., , Audience, This tutorial has been prepared for beginners to help them understand basic Android, programming. After completing this tutorial, you will find yourself at a moderate level of, expertise in Android programming from where you can take yourself to next levels., , Prerequisites, Android programming is based on Java programming language. If you have a basic, understanding of Java programming, then it will be fun to learn Android application, development., , Copyright & Disclaimer,  Copyright 2014 by Tutorials Point (I) Pvt. Ltd., All the content and graphics published in this e-book are the property of Tutorials Point (I), Pvt. Ltd. The user of this e-book is prohibited to reuse, retain, copy, distribute or republish, any contents or a part of contents of this e-book in any manner without written consent, of the publisher., We strive to update the contents of our website and tutorials as timely and as precisely as, possible, however, the contents may contain inaccuracies or errors. Tutorials Point (I) Pvt., Ltd. provides no guarantee regarding the accuracy, timeliness or completeness of our, website or its contents including this tutorial. If you discover any errors on our website or, in this tutorial, please notify us at [email protected], , i

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Android, , Table of Contents, About the Tutorial ............................................................................................................................................ i, Audience........................................................................................................................................................... i, Prerequisites..................................................................................................................................................... i, Copyright & Disclaimer ..................................................................................................................................... i, , 1. ANDROID – OVERVIEW............................................................................................................ 1, What is Android? ............................................................................................................................................. 1, Features of Android ......................................................................................................................................... 1, Android Applications ....................................................................................................................................... 2, , 2. ANDROID – ENVIRONMENT SETUP.......................................................................................... 3, Step 1 - Setup Java Development Kit (JDK)....................................................................................................... 3, Step 2 - Setup Android SDK .............................................................................................................................. 4, Step 3 - Setup Eclipse IDE ................................................................................................................................. 5, Step 4 - Setup Android Development Tools (ADT) Plugin ................................................................................. 6, Step 5 - Create Android Virtual Device ............................................................................................................. 8, , 3. ANDROID – ARCHITECTURE ................................................................................................... 10, Linux kernel ................................................................................................................................................... 10, Libraries ......................................................................................................................................................... 10, Android Runtime ........................................................................................................................................... 11, Application Framework ................................................................................................................................. 11, Applications ................................................................................................................................................... 11, , 4. ANDROID – APPLICATIONS COMPONENT .............................................................................. 12, Activities ........................................................................................................................................................ 12, Services ......................................................................................................................................................... 12, Broadcast Receivers ....................................................................................................................................... 13, , ii

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Android, , Content Providers .......................................................................................................................................... 13, Additional Components ................................................................................................................................. 13, , 5. ANDROID – HELLO WORLD EXAMPLE .................................................................................... 15, Create Android Application ........................................................................................................................... 15, Anatomy of Android Application ................................................................................................................... 16, The Main Activity File .................................................................................................................................... 18, The Manifest File ........................................................................................................................................... 19, The Strings File .............................................................................................................................................. 20, The R File ....................................................................................................................................................... 21, The Layout File ............................................................................................................................................... 22, Running the Application ................................................................................................................................ 23, , 6. ANDROID – ORGANIZING & ACCESSING THE RESOURCES ..................................................... 24, Organize Resources ....................................................................................................................................... 24, Alternative Resources .................................................................................................................................... 25, Accessing Resources ...................................................................................................................................... 27, Accessing Resources in Code .......................................................................................................................... 27, Accessing Resources in XML ........................................................................................................................... 28, , 7. ANDROID – ACTIVITIES .......................................................................................................... 30, 8. ANDROID – SERVICES ............................................................................................................ 36, 9. ANDROID – BROADCAST RECEIVERS...................................................................................... 46, Creating the Broadcast Receiver .................................................................................................................... 46, Registering Broadcast Receiver ...................................................................................................................... 46, Broadcasting Custom Intents ......................................................................................................................... 48, , 10. ANDROID – CONTENT PROVIDERS....................................................................................... 55, Content URIs.................................................................................................................................................. 55, iii

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Android, , Create Content Provider ................................................................................................................................ 56, , 11. ANDROID – FRAGMENTS ..................................................................................................... 70, Fragment Life Cycle ........................................................................................................................................ 71, How to use Fragments? ................................................................................................................................. 72, , 12. ANDROID – INTENTS & FILTERS ........................................................................................... 80, Intent Objects ................................................................................................................................................ 80, Action ............................................................................................................................................................ 81, Data ............................................................................................................................................................... 81, Category ........................................................................................................................................................ 82, Extras ............................................................................................................................................................. 82, Flags .............................................................................................................................................................. 82, Component Name.......................................................................................................................................... 82, Types of Intents ............................................................................................................................................. 82, Explicit Intents ............................................................................................................................................... 82, Implicit Intents .............................................................................................................................................. 83, Intent Filters .................................................................................................................................................. 88, , 13. ANDROID – UI LAYOUTS ...................................................................................................... 98, Android Layout Types .................................................................................................................................... 99, Layout Attributes ........................................................................................................................................... 99, View Identification ...................................................................................................................................... 102, , 14. ANDROID – UI CONTROLS ................................................................................................. 103, Android UI Controls ..................................................................................................................................... 103, Create UI Controls ....................................................................................................................................... 105, , 15. ANDROID – EVENT HANDLING .......................................................................................... 106, Event Listeners & Event Handlers ................................................................................................................ 106, , iv

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Android, , Event Listeners Registration: ....................................................................................................................... 107, Event Handling Examples ............................................................................................................................. 107, Registration Using the Activity Implements Listener Interface .................................................................... 112, Registration Using Layout file activity_main.xml ......................................................................................... 115, Exercise: ...................................................................................................................................................... 118, , 17. ANDROID – STYLES & THEMES .......................................................................................... 119, Defining Styles ............................................................................................................................................. 119, Using Styles ................................................................................................................................................. 120, Style Inheritance .......................................................................................................................................... 120, Android Themes .......................................................................................................................................... 122, Default Styles & Themes .............................................................................................................................. 122, , 18. ANDROID – CUSTOM COMPONENTS................................................................................. 123, Creating a Simple Custom Component ......................................................................................................... 123, Instantiate using code inside activity class ................................................................................................... 124, Instantiate using Layout XML file ................................................................................................................. 124, Custom Component with Custom Attributes ............................................................................................... 125, Step 1 .......................................................................................................................................................... 126, Step 2 .......................................................................................................................................................... 126, Step 3 .......................................................................................................................................................... 127, , 19. ANDROID – DRAG & DROP ................................................................................................ 129, The Drag/Drop Process ................................................................................................................................ 129, The DragEvent Class ..................................................................................................................................... 130, Listening for Drag Event ............................................................................................................................... 131, Starting a Drag Event ................................................................................................................................... 131, , 20. ANDROID – NOTIFICATIONS .............................................................................................. 138, Create and Send Notifications ..................................................................................................................... 139, v

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Android, , The NotificationCompat.Builder Class.......................................................................................................... 140, Big View Notification ................................................................................................................................... 151, , 21. ANDROID – LOCATION-BASED SERVICES ........................................................................... 154, The Location Object ..................................................................................................................................... 154, Get the Current Location ............................................................................................................................. 156, Get the Updated Location ............................................................................................................................ 157, Location Quality of Service .......................................................................................................................... 157, Displaying a Location Address...................................................................................................................... 158, Install the Google Play Services SDK ............................................................................................................ 158, Create Android Application ......................................................................................................................... 159, , 22. ANDROID – SENDING EMAIL ............................................................................................. 170, Intent Object - Action to send Email ............................................................................................................ 170, Intent Object - Data/Type to send Email ...................................................................................................... 170, Intent Object - Extra to send Email .............................................................................................................. 170, , 23. ANDROID – SENDING SMS................................................................................................. 178, Using SmsManager to send SMS .................................................................................................................. 178, Using Built-in Intent to send SMS ................................................................................................................ 185, Intent Object - Action to send SMS .............................................................................................................. 185, Intent Object - Data/Type to send SMS........................................................................................................ 185, Intent Object - Extra to send SMS ................................................................................................................ 185, , 24. ANDROID – PHONE CALLS ................................................................................................. 192, Intent Object - Action to make Phone Call ................................................................................................... 192, Intent Object - Data/Type to make Phone Call ............................................................................................. 192, , 25. ANDROID – PUBLISHING ANDROID APPLICATION.............................................................. 199, Export Android Application.......................................................................................................................... 200, , vi

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Android, , Google Play Registration .............................................................................................................................. 204, , 26. ANDROID – ALERT DIALOG TUTORIAL ............................................................................... 206, 27. ANDROID – ANIMATIONS .................................................................................................. 220, Tween Animation ........................................................................................................................................ 220, Zoom in animation....................................................................................................................................... 221, , 28. ANDROID – AUDIO CAPTURE............................................................................................. 235, 29. ANDROID – AUDIO MANAGER........................................................................................... 248, 30. ANDROID – AUTOCOMPLETE ............................................................................................ 261, 31. ANDROID – BEST PRACTICES ............................................................................................. 271, Best Practices - User input ........................................................................................................................... 271, Best Practices - Performance ....................................................................................................................... 272, Best Practices - Security and privacy ............................................................................................................ 272, , 32. ANDROID – BLUETOOTH ................................................................................................... 283, 33. ANDROID – CAMERA ......................................................................................................... 297, Using existing android camera application in our application ...................................................................... 297, Directly using Camera API Provided by Android in our Application .............................................................. 306, , 34. ANDROID – CLIPBOARD ..................................................................................................... 317, Copying data ................................................................................................................................................ 317, Pasting data ................................................................................................................................................. 318, , 35. ANDROID – CUSTOM FONTS ............................................................................................. 328, 36. ANDROID – DATA BACKUP ................................................................................................ 333, Test your BackupAgent ................................................................................................................................ 337, , 37. ANDROID – DEVELOPER TOOLS ......................................................................................... 339, vii

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Android, , SDK tools ..................................................................................................................................................... 339, Android........................................................................................................................................................ 340, DDMS .......................................................................................................................................................... 340, Capturing ScreenShot .................................................................................................................................. 344, Sqlite3 ......................................................................................................................................................... 344, Platform tools .............................................................................................................................................. 345, , 38. ANDROID – EMULATOR ..................................................................................................... 346, Creating AVD ............................................................................................................................................... 346, Creating Snapshots ...................................................................................................................................... 346, Changing Orientation ................................................................................................................................... 346, Emulator Commands. .................................................................................................................................. 347, Emulator - Sending SMS ............................................................................................................................... 348, Emulator - Making Call................................................................................................................................. 350, Emulator - Transferring files ........................................................................................................................ 351, , 39. ANDROID – FACEBOOK INTEGRATION ............................................................................... 352, Integrating Facebook SDK ............................................................................................................................ 352, Intent share ................................................................................................................................................. 354, , 40. ANDROID – GESTURES....................................................................................................... 364, Handling Pinch Gesture ............................................................................................................................... 364, , 41. ANDROID – GOOGLE MAPS ............................................................................................... 374, Adding Google Map ..................................................................................................................................... 374, Customizing Google Map ............................................................................................................................. 375, Integrating Google Maps ............................................................................................................................. 377, Download and configure. Google Play Services SDK .................................................................................... 377, Obtaining the API key .................................................................................................................................. 378, Specify Android Manifest Settings ............................................................................................................... 380, viii

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Android, , Adding Google Maps to your application. .................................................................................................... 380, , 42. ANDROID – IMAGE EFFECTS .............................................................................................. 386, 43. ANDROID – IMAGE SWITCHER .......................................................................................... 399, 44. ANDROID – INTERNAL STORAGE ....................................................................................... 409, Writing file ................................................................................................................................................... 409, Reading file .................................................................................................................................................. 409, , 45. ANDROID – JETPLAYER ...................................................................................................... 420, Using JetCreator .......................................................................................................................................... 421, Verifying Results .......................................................................................................................................... 424, , 46. ANDROID – JSON PARSER .................................................................................................. 426, JSON - Elements ........................................................................................................................................... 426, JSON - Parsing .............................................................................................................................................. 427, , 47. ANDROID – LINKEDIN INTEGRATION ................................................................................. 440, Integrating LinkedIn SDK.............................................................................................................................. 440, Intent share ................................................................................................................................................. 441, , 48. ANDROID – LOADING SPINNER ......................................................................................... 451, 49. ANDROID – LOCALIZATION ................................................................................................ 458, Localizing Strings ......................................................................................................................................... 458, , 50. ANDROID – LOGIN SCREEN................................................................................................ 466, 51. ANDROID – MEDIA PLAYER ............................................................................................... 478, 52. ANDROID – MULTITOUCH ................................................................................................. 493, 53. ANDROID – NAVIGATION .................................................................................................. 506, Providing Up Navigation .............................................................................................................................. 506, ix

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Android, , Handling device back button ....................................................................................................................... 506, , 54. ANDROID –NETWORK CONNECTION ................................................................................. 518, Checking Network Connection ..................................................................................................................... 518, Performing Network Operations.................................................................................................................. 519, , 55. ANDROID – NFC GUIDE ..................................................................................................... 531, How It Works: .............................................................................................................................................. 531, How it works with Android: ......................................................................................................................... 531, Future Applications...................................................................................................................................... 533, , 56. ANDROID – PHP/MYSQL .................................................................................................... 534, PHP - MYSQL ................................................................................................................................................ 534, Android - Connecting MYSQL ....................................................................................................................... 536, , 57. ANDROID – PROGRESS CIRCLE .......................................................................................... 553, 58. ANDROID – PROGRESS BAR USING PROGRESS DIALOG ..................................................... 562, 59. ANDROID – PUSH NOTIFICATION ...................................................................................... 572, 60. ANDROID – RENDERSCRIPT ............................................................................................... 584, How RenderScript Works: ............................................................................................................................ 584, How to Begin: .............................................................................................................................................. 584, , 61. ANDROID – RSS READER .................................................................................................... 587, RSS Example ................................................................................................................................................ 587, RSS Elements ............................................................................................................................................... 587, Parsing RSS .................................................................................................................................................. 588, , 62. ANDROID – SCREEN CAST.................................................................................................. 600, Screen Cast Steps ......................................................................................................................................... 600, , 63. ANDROID – SDK MANAGER ............................................................................................... 604, x

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Android, , Running Android SDK Manager:................................................................................................................... 604, Recommended............................................................................................................................................. 605, Enabling Proxy in Android SDK Manager...................................................................................................... 605, Adding New Third Party Sites ...................................................................................................................... 606, , 64. ANDROID – SENSORS ........................................................................................................ 608, Getting list of sensors supported. ................................................................................................................ 608, , 65. ANDROID – SESSION MANAGEMENT ................................................................................ 615, Shared Preferences ...................................................................................................................................... 615, Session Management through Shared Preferences ...................................................................................... 616, , 66. ANDROID – SIP PROTOCOL ................................................................................................ 631, Applications ................................................................................................................................................. 631, Requirements .............................................................................................................................................. 631, SIP Classes ................................................................................................................................................... 631, Functions of SIP ........................................................................................................................................... 632, Components of SIP ...................................................................................................................................... 632, UAC ............................................................................................................................................................. 632, UAS .............................................................................................................................................................. 632, SipManager ................................................................................................................................................. 632, , 67. ANDROID – SPELLING CHECKER......................................................................................... 634, 68. ANDROID – SQLITE DATABASE .......................................................................................... 644, Database - Package ...................................................................................................................................... 644, Database - Creation ..................................................................................................................................... 644, Database - Insertion .................................................................................................................................... 645, Database - Fetching ..................................................................................................................................... 645, Database - Helper class ................................................................................................................................ 646, , xi

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Android, , 69. ANDROID – SUPPORT LIBRARY .......................................................................................... 673, Support Library Features ............................................................................................................................. 673, Downloading the Support Libraries ............................................................................................................. 674, , 70. ANDROID – TESTING ......................................................................................................... 676, Test Structure .............................................................................................................................................. 676, Testing Tools in Android .............................................................................................................................. 676, JUnit ............................................................................................................................................................ 677, Monkey ....................................................................................................................................................... 678, , 71. ANDROID – TEXT TO SPEECH ............................................................................................. 687, 72. ANDROID – TEXTURE VIEW ............................................................................................... 698, 73. ANDROID – TWITTER INTEGRATION .................................................................................. 708, Integrating Twitter SDK ............................................................................................................................... 708, Intent share ................................................................................................................................................. 710, , 74. ANDROID – UI DESIGN ...................................................................................................... 720, UI screen components ................................................................................................................................. 720, Understanding Screen Components ............................................................................................................. 721, Units of Measurement ................................................................................................................................. 724, Screen Densities .......................................................................................................................................... 724, Optimizing layouts ....................................................................................................................................... 725, , 75. ANDROID – UI PATTERNS .................................................................................................. 726, UI Patterns components .............................................................................................................................. 726, Action Bar .................................................................................................................................................... 726, Confirming and Acknowledging ................................................................................................................... 727, Settings ........................................................................................................................................................ 728, Help ............................................................................................................................................................. 728, xii

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Android, , Selection ...................................................................................................................................................... 728, , 76. ANDROID – UI TESTING ..................................................................................................... 730, uiautomatorviewer ...................................................................................................................................... 730, uiautomator ................................................................................................................................................ 734, , 77. ANDROID – WEBVIEW ....................................................................................................... 742, 78. ANDROID – WI-FI .............................................................................................................. 751, 79. ANDROID – WIDGETS ........................................................................................................ 759, Widget - XML file ......................................................................................................................................... 759, Widget - Layout file ..................................................................................................................................... 759, Widget - Java file ......................................................................................................................................... 759, Widget - Manifest file .................................................................................................................................. 760, , 80. ANDROID – XML PARSER ................................................................................................... 768, XML - Elements ............................................................................................................................................ 768, XML - Parsing ............................................................................................................................................... 769, , xiii

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1. ANDROID – Overview, , Android, , What is Android?, Android is an open source and Linux-based Operating System for mobile devices such as, smartphones and tablet computers. Android was developed by the Open Handset Alliance, led, by Google, and other companies., Android offers a unified approach to application development for mobile devices which means, developers need to develop only for Android, and their applications should be able to run on, different devices powered by Android., The first beta version of the Android Software Development Kit (SDK) was released by Google, in 2007, whereas the first commercial version, Android 1.0, was released in September 2008., On June 27, 2012, at the Google I/O conference, Google announced the next Android version,, 4.1 Jelly Bean. Jelly Bean is an incremental update, with the primary aim of improving the, user interface, both in terms of functionality and performance., The source code for Android is available under free and open source software licenses. Google, publishes most of the code under the Apache License version 2.0 and the rest, Linux kernel, changes, under the GNU General Public License version 2., , Features of Android, Android is a powerful operating system competing with Apple 4GS and support great features., Few of them are listed below:, Feature, , Description, , Beautiful UI, , Android OS basic screen provides a beautiful and intuitive user, interface., , Connectivity, , GSM/EDGE, IDEN, CDMA, EV-DO, UMTS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, LTE, NFC, and WiMAX., , Storage, , SQLite, a lightweight relational database, is used for data storage, purposes., , 14

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Android, , Media support, , H.263, H.264, MPEG-4 SP, AMR, AMR-WB, AAC, HE-AAC, AAC 5.1,, MP3, MIDI, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, JPEG, PNG, GIF, and BMP, , Messaging, , SMS and MMS, , Web browser, , Based on the open-source WebKit layout engine, coupled with, Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine supporting HTML5 and CSS3., , Multi-touch, , Android has native support for multi-touch which was initially made, available in handsets such as the HTC Hero., , Multi-tasking, , User can jump from one task to another and same time various, application can run simultaneously., , Resizable widgets, , Widgets are resizable, so users can expand them to show more, content or shrink them to save space, , Multi-Language, , Support single direction and bi-directional text., , GCM, , Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) is a service that let developers send, short message data to their users on Android devices, without, needing a proprietary sync solution., , Wi-Fi Direct, , A technology that let apps discover and pair directly, over a highbandwidth peer-to-peer connection., , Android Beam, , A popular NFC-based technology that let users instantly share, just, by touching two NFC-enabled phones together., , Android Applications, Android applications are usually developed in the Java language using the Android Software, Development Kit., Once developed, Android applications can be packaged easily and sold out either through a, store such as Google Play or the Amazon Appstore., , 15

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Android, Android powers hundreds of millions of mobile devices in more than 190 countries around the, world. It's the largest installed base of any mobile platform and is growing fast. Every day, more than 1 million new Android devices are activated worldwide., This tutorial has been written with an aim to teach you how to develop and package Android, application. We will start from environment setup for Android application programming and, then drill down to look into various aspects of Android applications., , 16

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2. ANDROID – Environment Setup, , Android, , You will be glad to know that you can start your Android application development on either of, the following operating systems:, , , Microsoft Windows XP or later version., , , , Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later version with Intel chip., , , , Linux including GNU C Library 2.7 or later., , Second point is that all the required tools to develop Android applications are freely available, and can be downloaded from the Web. Following is the list of software's you will need before, you start your Android application programming., , , Java JDK5 or JDK6, , , , Android SDK, , , , Eclipse IDE for Java Developers (optional), , , , Android Development Tools (ADT) Eclipse Plugin (optional), , Here last two components are optional and if you are working on Windows machine then these, components make your life easy while doing Java based application development. So let us, have a look at how to proceed to set the required environment., , Step 1 - Setup Java Development Kit (JDK), You can download the latest version of Java JDK from Oracle's Java site: Java SE Downloads., You will find instructions for installing JDK in downloaded files, follow the given instructions, to install and configure the setup. Finally, set PATH and JAVA_HOME environment variables, to refer to the directory that contains java and javac, typically java_install_dir/bin and, java_install_dir respectively., If you are running Windows and have installed the JDK in C:\jdk1.6.0_15, you would have to, put the following line in your C:\autoexec.bat file., set PATH=C:\jdk1.6.0_15\bin;%PATH%, set JAVA_HOME=C:\jdk1.6.0_15, Alternatively, you could also right-click on My Computer, select Properties, then Advanced,, then Environment Variables. Then, you would update the PATH value and press the OK button., , 17

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Android, On Linux, if the SDK is installed in /usr/local/jdk1.6.0_15 and you use the C shell, you would, put the following code into your .cshrc file., setenv PATH /usr/local/jdk1.6.0_15/bin:$PATH, setenv JAVA_HOME /usr/local/jdk1.6.0_15, Alternatively, if you use an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Eclipse, then it will, know automatically where you have installed your Java., , Step 2 - Setup Android SDK, You can download the latest version of Android SDK from Android’s official, website: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html. If you are installing SDK on Windows, machine, then you will find ainstaller_rXX-windows.exe, so just download and run this exe, which will launch Android SDK Tool Setup wizard to guide you throughout the installation, so, just follow the instructions carefully. Finally, you will have Android SDK Tools installed on your, machine., If you are installing SDK either on Mac OS or Linux, check the instructions provided along, with the downloaded android-sdk_rXX-macosx.zip file for Mac OS and android-sdk_rXXlinux.tgz file for Linux. This tutorial will consider that you are going to setup your environment, on Windows machine having Windows 7 operating system., So let's launch Android SDK Manager using the option All Programs > Android SDK Tools, > SDK Manager, this will give you following window:, , 18

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Android, , Once you launched SDK manager, it is time to install other required packages. By default it, will list down total 7 packages to be installed, but we will suggest to de-select Documentation, for Android SDK and Samples for SDK packages to reduce installation time. Next click the, Install 7 Packages button to proceed, which will display following dialogue box:, , 19

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Android, , If you agree to install all the packages, select Accept All radio button and proceed by, clicking Install button. Now let SDK manager do its work and you go, pick up a cup of coffee, and wait until all the packages are installed. It may take some time depending on your internet, connection. Once all the packages are installed, you can close SDK manager using top-right, cross button., , Step 3 - Setup Eclipse IDE, All the examples in this tutorial have been written using Eclipse IDE. So we would suggest, you should have latest version of Eclipse installed on your machine., To, , install, , Eclipse, , IDE,, , download, , the, , latest, , Eclipse, , binaries, , from, , http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/. Once you have downloaded the installation, unpack the, binary distribution into a convenient location. For example in C:\eclipse on windows, or, /usr/local/eclipse on Linux and finally set PATH variable appropriately., Eclipse can be started by executing the following commands on windows machine, or you can, simply double click on eclipse.exe, %C:\eclipse\eclipse.exe, Eclipse can be started by executing the following command on Linux machine:, $/usr/local/eclipse/eclipse, After a successful startup, if everything is fine then it should display the following result:, , 20

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Android, , Step 4 - Setup Android Development Tools (ADT) Plugin, This step will help you in setting Android Development Tool plugin for Eclipse. Let's start with, launching Eclipse and then, choose Help > Software Updates > Install New Software., This will display the following dialogue box., , 21

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Android, , Now, use Add button, to, add ADT, Plugin as, name, and https://dlssl.google.com/android/eclipse/ as the location. Then click OK to add this location. As soon, as you will click OK button to add this location, Eclipse starts searching for the plug-in available, in the given location and finally lists down the found plugins., , 22

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Android, , Now select all the listed plug-ins using Select All button and click Next button which will, guide you ahead to install Android Development Tools and other required plugins., , Step 5 - Create Android Virtual Device, To test your Android applications you will need a virtual Android device. So before we start, writing our code, let us create an Android virtual device. Launch Android AVD Manager using, Eclipse menu options Window > AVD Manager> which will launch Android AVD Manager., Use New button to create a new Android Virtual Device and enter the following information,, before clicking Create AVD button., , 23

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Android, , If your AVD is created successfully it means your environment is ready for Android application, development. If you like, you can close this window using top-right cross button. Better you, re-start your machine and once you are done with this last step, you are ready to proceed for, your first Android example but before that we will see few more important concepts related, to Android Application Development., , 24

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3. ANDROID – Architecture, , Android, , Android operating system is a stack of software components which is roughly divided into five, sections and four main layers as shown below in the architecture diagram., , Linux kernel, At the bottom of the layers is Linux - Linux 2.6 with approximately 115 patches. This provides, basic system functionality like process management, memory management, device, management like camera, keypad, display etc. Also, the kernel handles all the things that, Linux is really good at, such as networking and a vast array of device drivers, which take the, pain out of interfacing to peripheral hardware., , Libraries, On top of Linux kernel there is a set of libraries including open-source Web browser engine, WebKit, well known library libc, SQLite database which is a useful repository for storage and, 25

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Android, sharing of application data, libraries to play and record audio and video, SSL libraries, responsible for Internet security etc., , Android Runtime, This is the third section of the architecture and available on the second layer from the bottom., This section provides a key component called Dalvik Virtual Machine which is a kind of Java, Virtual Machine specially designed and optimized for Android., The Dalvik VM makes use of Linux core features like memory management and multithreading, which is intrinsic in the Java language. The Dalvik VM enables every Android, application to run in its own process, with its own instance of the Dalvik virtual machine., The Android runtime also provides a set of core libraries which enable Android application, developers to write Android applications using standard Java programming language., , Application Framework, The Application Framework layer provides many higher-level services to applications in the, form of Java classes. Application developers are allowed to make use of these services in their, applications., , Applications, You will find all the Android application at the top layer. You will write your application to be, installed on this layer only. Examples of such applications are Contacts Books, Browser,, Games, etc., , 26

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4. ANDROID – Applications Component, , Android, , Application components are the essential building blocks of an Android application. These, components are loosely coupled by the application manifest file AndroidManifest.xml that, describes each component of the application and how they interact., There are following four main components that can be used within an Android application:, Components, , Description, , Activities, , They dictate the UI and handle the user interaction to the, smartphone screen, , Services, , They handle, application., , background, , Broadcast Receivers, , They handle, applications., , communication, , Content Providers, , They handle data and database management issues., , processing, , associated, , between, , Android, , with, , OS, , an, , and, , Activities, An activity represents a single screen with a user interface. For example, an email application, might have one activity that shows a list of new emails, another activity to compose an email,, and one for reading emails. If an application has more than one activity, then one of them, should be marked as the activity that is presented when the application is launched., An activity is implemented as a subclass of Activity class as follows:, public class MainActivity extends Activity, {, , }, , 27

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Android, , Services, A service is a component that runs in the background to perform long-running operations. For, example, a service might play music in the background while the user is in a different, application, or it might fetch data over the network without blocking user interaction with an, activity., A service is implemented as a subclass of Service class as follows:, public class MyService extends Service, {, , }, , Broadcast Receivers, Broadcast Receivers simply respond to broadcast messages from other applications or from, the system. For example, applications can also initiate broadcasts to let other applications, know that some data has been downloaded to the device and is available for them to use, so, this is broadcast receiver who will intercept this communication and will initiate appropriate, action., A broadcast receiver is implemented as a subclass of BroadcastReceiver class and each, message is broadcasted as an Intent object., public class MyReceiver, , extends, , BroadcastReceiver, , {, , }, , Content Providers, A content provider component supplies data from one application to others on request. Such, requests are handled by the methods of the ContentResolver class. The data may be stored, in the file system, the database or somewhere else entirely., A content provider is implemented as a subclass of ContentProvider class and must, implement a standard set of APIs that enable other applications to perform transactions., public class MyContentProvider extends, , ContentProvider, , {, 28

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Android, , }, We will go through these tags in detail while covering application components in individual, chapters., , Additional Components, There are additional components which will be used in the construction of above mentioned, entities, their logic, and wiring between them. These components are:, Components, , Description, , Fragments, , Represent a behavior or a portion of user interface in an Activity., , Views, , UI elements that are drawn onscreen including buttons, lists, forms etc., , Layouts, , View hierarchies that control screen format and appearance of the, views., , Intents, , Messages wiring components together., , Resources, , External elements, such as strings, constants and drawable, pictures., , Manifest, , Configuration file for the application., , 29

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5. ANDROID – Hello World Example, , Android, , Let us start actual programming with Android Framework. Before you start writing your first, example using Android SDK, you have to make sure that you have setup your Android, development environment properly as explained in Android - Environment Setup tutorial. We, also assume, that you have a little bit working knowledge with Eclipse IDE., So let us proceed to write a simple Android Application which will print "Hello World!"., , Create Android Application, The first step is to create a simple Android Application using Eclipse IDE. Follow the option, File -> New -> Project and finally select Android New Application wizard from the wizard, list. Now name your application as HelloWorld using the wizard window as follows:, , 30

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Android, Next, follow the instructions provided and keep all other entries as default till the final step., Once your project is created successfully, you will have the following project screen:, , Anatomy of Android Application, Before you run your app, you should be aware of a few directories and files in the Android, project:, , 31

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Android, , This contains the .java source files for your project. By default, it includes, anMainActivity.java source file having an activity class that runs when your app, is launched using the app icon., 2, , gen, This contains the .R file, a compiler-generated file that references all the, resources found in your project. You should not modify this file., , 3, , bin, This folder contains the Android package files .apk built by the ADT during the, build process and everything else needed to run an Android application., , 4, , res/drawable-hdpi, This is a directory for drawable objects that are designed for high-density screens., , 5, , res/layout, This is a directory for files that define your app's user interface., , 6, , res/values, This is a directory for other various XML files that contain a collection of resources,, such as strings and colors definitions., , 7, , AndroidManifest.xml, This is the manifest file which describes the fundamental characteristics of the, app and defines each of its components., , Following section will give a brief overview few of the important application files., , The Main Activity File, The main activity code is a Java file MainActivity.java. This is the actual application file, which ultimately gets converted to a Dalvik executable and runs your application. Following, is the default code generated by the application wizard for Hello World! application:, package com.example.helloworld;, , 33

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Android, , import android.os.Bundle;, import android.app.Activity;, import android.view.Menu;, import android.view.MenuItem;, import android.support.v4.app.NavUtils;, , public class MainActivity extends Activity {, , @Override, public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {, super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);, setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);, }, @Override, public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {, getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_main, menu);, return true;, }, }, Here, R.layout.activity_main refers to the activity_main.xml file located in the res/layout, folder. The onCreate() method is one of many methods that are fired when an activity is, loaded., , The Manifest File, Whatever component you develop as a part of your application, you must declare all its, components in a manifest file called AndroidManifest.xml which resides at the root of the, application project directory. This file works as an interface between Android OS and your, application, so if you do not declare your component in this file, then it will not be considered, by the OS. For example, a default manifest file will look like as following file:, , <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android", package="com.example.helloworld", android:versionCode="1", android:versionName="1.0" >, 34

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Android, , <uses-sdk, android:minSdkVersion="8", android:targetSdkVersion="15" />, , <application, android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher", android:label="@string/app_name", android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >, , <activity, android:name=".MainActivity", android:label="@string/title_activity_main" >, , <intent-filter>, <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />, <category, android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />, , </intent-filter>, </activity>, </application>, </manifest>, Here <application>...</application> tags enclosed the components related to the application., Attribute android:icon will point to the application icon available underres/drawable-hdpi. The, application uses the image named ic_launcher.png located in the drawable folders., The <activity> tag is used to specify an activity and android:name attribute specifies the fully, qualified class name of the Activity subclass and the android:label attributes specifies a string, to use as the label for the activity. You can specify multiple activities using <activity> tags., The action for the intent filter is named android.intent.action.MAIN to indicate that this, activity serves as the entry point for the application. The category for the intent-filter is, named android.intent.category.LAUNCHER to indicate that the application can be launched, from the device's launcher icon., The @string refers to the strings.xml file explained below. Hence, @string/app_name refers to, the app_name string defined in the strings.xml file, which is "HelloWorld". Similar way, other, strings get populated in the application., Following is the list of tags which you will use in your manifest file to specify different Android, application components:, 35

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Android, , , <activity>elements for activities, , , , <service> elements for services, , , , <receiver> elements for broadcast receivers, , , , <provider> elements for content providers, , The Strings File, The strings.xml file is located in the res/values folder and it contains all the text that your, application uses. For example, the names of buttons, labels, default text, and similar types of, strings go into this file. This file is responsible for their textual content. For example, a default, string file will look like as following file:, , <resources>, <string name="app_name">HelloWorld</string>, <string name="hello_world">Hello world!</string>, <string name="menu_settings">Settings</string>, <string name="title_activity_main">MainActivity</string>, </resources>, , The R File, The gen/com.example.helloworld/R.java file is the glue between the activity Java files, likeMainActivity.java and the resources like strings.xml. It is an automatically generated file, and you should not modify the content of the R.java file. Following is a sample of R.java file:, /* AUTO-GENERATED FILE., , DO NOT MODIFY., , *, * This class was automatically generated by the, * aapt tool from the resource data it found., , It, , * should not be modified by hand., */, , package com.example.helloworld;, , public final class R {, 36

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Android, , The Layout File, The activity_main.xml is a layout file available in res/layout directory that is referenced by, your application when building its interface. You will modify this file very frequently to change, the layout of your application. For your "Hello World!" application, this file will have following, content related to default layout:, , <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android", xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools", android:layout_width="match_parent", android:layout_height="match_parent" >, , <TextView, android:layout_width="wrap_content", android:layout_height="wrap_content", android:layout_centerHorizontal="true", android:layout_centerVertical="true", android:padding="@dimen/padding_medium", android:text="@string/hello_world", tools:context=".MainActivity" />, , </RelativeLayout>, This is an example of simple RelativeLayout which we will study in a separate chapter., TheTextView is an Android control used to build the GUI and it has various attributes like, android:layout_width, android:layout_height, etc., which are being used to set its width and, height etc. The @string refers to the strings.xml file located in the res/values folder. Hence,, @string/hello_world refers to the hello string defined in the strings.xml file, which is "Hello, World!"., , Running the Application, Let's try to run our Hello World! application we just created. We assume, you had created, your AVD while doing environment setup. To run the app from Eclipse, open one of your, project's activity files and click Run, icon from the toolbar. Eclipse installs the app on your, AVD and starts it and if everything is fine with your setup and application, it will display, following Emulator window:, , 38

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Android, 6. ANDROID – Organizing & Accessing the resources, , There are many more items which you use to build a good Android application. Apart from, coding for the application, you take care of various other resources like static content that, your code uses, such as bitmaps, colors, layout definitions, user interface strings, animation, instructions, and more. These resources are always maintained separately in various subdirectories under res/ directory of the project., This tutorial will explain you how you can organize your application resources, specify, alternative resources and access them in your applications., , Organize Resources, You should place each type of resource in a specific subdirectory of, project's res/directory. For example, here's the file hierarchy for a simple project:, , your, , MyProject/, src/, MyActivity.java, res/, drawable/, icon.png, layout/, activity_main.xml, info.xml, values/, strings.xml, The res/ directory contains all the resources in various sub-directories. Here we have an, image resource, two layout resources, and a string resource file. Following table gives a detail, about the resource directories supported inside project res/ directory., Directory, , Resource Type, , anim/, , XML files that define property animations. They are saved in res/anim/, folder and accessed from the R.anim class., 40

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Android, , color/, , XML files that define a state list of colors. They are saved in res/color/, and accessed from the R.color class., , drawable/, , Image files like .png, .jpg, .gif or XML files that are compiled into, bitmaps, state lists, shapes, animation drawables. They are saved in, res/drawable/ and accessed from the R.drawable class., , layout/, , XML files that define a user interface layout. They are saved in, res/layout/ and accessed from the R.layout class., , menu/, , XML files that define application menus, such as an Options Menu,, Context Menu, or Sub Menu. They are saved in res/menu/ and, accessed from the R.menu class., , raw/, , Arbitrary files to save in their raw form. You need to call, Resources.openRawResource() with the resource ID, which is, R.raw.filename to open such raw files., , values/, , XML files that contain simple values, such as strings, integers, and, colors. For example, here are some filename conventions for resources, you can create in this directory:, arrays.xml for resource arrays, and accessed from the R.array class., integers.xml for, R.integer class., , resource, , integers,, , and, , accessed, , from, , the, , bools.xml for resource boolean, and accessed from the R.bool class., colors.xml for color values, and accessed from the R.color class., dimens.xml for, R.dimen class., , dimension, , values,, , and, , accessed, , from, , the, , strings.xml for string values, and accessed from the R.string class., styles.xml for styles, and accessed from the R.style class., xml/, , Arbitrary XML files that can be read at runtime by calling, Resources.getXML(). You can save various configuration files here, which will be used at run time., , 41

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Android, , Alternative Resources, Your application should provide alternative resources to support specific device configurations., For example, you should include alternative drawable resources (i.e. images) for different, screen resolution and alternative string resources for different languages. At runtime, Android, detects the current device configuration and loads the appropriate resources for your, application., To specify configuration-specific alternatives for a set of resources, follow these steps:, , , Create a new directory in res/ named in the form <resources_name><config_qualifier>. Here resources_name will be any of the resources mentioned, in the above table, like layout, drawable etc. The qualifier will specify an individual, configuration for which these resources are to be used. You can check official, documentation for a complete list of qualifiers for different type of resources., , , , Save the respective alternative resources in this new directory. The resource files must, be named exactly the same as the default resource files as shown in the below, example, but these files will have content specific to the alternative. For example, though image file name will be same but for high resolution screen, its resolution will, be high., , Below is an example which specifies images for a default screen and alternative images for, high resolution screen., MyProject/, src/, MyActivity.java, res/, drawable/, icon.png, background.png, drawable-hdpi/, icon.png, background.png, layout/, activity_main.xml, info.xml, values/, strings.xml, 42

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Android, Below is another example which specifies layout for a default language and alternative layout, for Arabic language (layout-ar/)., MyProject/, src/, MyActivity.java, res/, drawable/, icon.png, background.png, drawable-hdpi/, icon.png, background.png, layout/, activity_main.xml, info.xml, layout-ar/, main.xml, values/, strings.xml, , Accessing Resources, During your application development you will need to access defined resources either in your, code, or in your layout XML files. Following section explains how to access your resources in, both the scenarios:, , Accessing Resources in Code, When your Android application is compiled, a R class gets generated, which contains resource, IDs for all the resources available in your res/ directory. You can use R class to access that, resource using sub-directory and resource name or directly resource ID., Example:, To access res/drawable/myimage.png and set an ImageView you will use following code:, ImageView imageView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.myimageview);, 43

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Android, , </LinearLayout>, This application code will load this layout for an Activity, in the onCreate() method as follows:, public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {, super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);, setContentView(R.layout.main_activity);, }, , Accessing Resources in XML, Consider the following resource XML res/values/strings.xml file that includes a color resource, and a string resource:, <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>, , <resources>, <color name="opaque_red">#f00</color>, <string name="hello">Hello!</string>, </resources>, Now you can use these resources in the following layout file to set the text color and text, string as follows:, <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>, , <EditText xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android", android:layout_width="fill_parent", android:layout_height="fill_parent", android:textColor="@color/opaque_red", android:text="@string/hello" />, Now if you go through the previous chapter once again where we have explained Hello, World! example, surely you will have better understanding on all the concepts explained in, this chapter. So we highly recommend to check previous chapter for working example and, check how we have used various resources at very basic level., , 45

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7. ANDROID – Activities, , Android, , An activity represents a single screen with a user interface. For example, an email application, might have one activity that shows a list of new emails, another activity to compose an email,, and another activity for reading emails. If an application has more than one activity, then one, of them should be marked as the activity that is presented when the application is launched., If you have worked with C, C++ or Java programming language then you must have seen, that your program starts from main() function. Very similar way, Android system initiates its, program within an Activity starting with a call on onCreate() callback method. There is a, sequence of callback methods that start up an activity and a sequence of callback methods, that tear down an activity as shown in the below Activity lifecycle diagram: (image courtesy:, android.com ), , The Activity class defines the following callbacks i.e. events. You don't need to implement all, the callback methods. However, it's important that you understand each one and implement, those that ensure your app behaves the way users expect., Callback, , Description, , onCreate(), , This is the first callback and called when the activity is first created., , onStart(), , This callback is called when the activity becomes visible to the user., 46

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Android, , onResume(), , This is called when the user starts interacting with the application., , onPause(), , The paused activity does not receive user input and cannot execute, any code and called when the current activity is being paused and the, previous activity is being resumed., , onStop(), , This callback is called when the activity is no longer visible., , onDestroy(), , This callback is called before the activity is destroyed by the system., , onRestart(), , This callback is called when the activity restarts after stopping it., , Example:, , This example will take you through simple steps to show Android application activity life, cycle. Follow the below mentioned steps to modify the Android application we created, in Hello World Example chapter:, Step, , Description, , 1, , You will use Eclipse IDE to create an Android application and name it as, HelloWorld under a package com.example.helloworld as explained in the Hello, World Example chapter., , 2, , Modify main activity file MainActivity.java as explained below. Keep rest of the, files unchanged., , 3, , Run the application to launch Android emulator and verify the result of the, changes done in the application., , Following, is, the, content, of, the, modified, main, activity, file, src/com.example.helloworld/MainActivity.java. This file includes each of the, fundamental lifecycle methods. The Log.d() method has been used to generate log, messages:, package com.example.helloworld;, , 47

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Android, , super.onPause();, Log.d(msg, "The onPause() event");, }, , /** Called when the activity is no longer visible. */, @Override, protected void onStop() {, super.onStop();, Log.d(msg, "The onStop() event");, }, , /** Called just before the activity is destroyed. */, @Override, public void onDestroy() {, super.onDestroy();, Log.d(msg, "The onDestroy() event");, }, }, An activity class loads all the UI component using the XML file available in res/layout folder of, the project. Following statement loads UI components from res/layout/activity_main.xml file:, setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);, An application can have one or more activities without any restrictions. Every activity you, define for your application must be declared in your AndroidManifest.xml file and the main, activity for your app must be declared in the manifest with an <intent-filter> that includes, the MAIN action and LAUNCHER category as follows:, , <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android", package="com.example.helloworld", android:versionCode="1", android:versionName="1.0" >, , <uses-sdk, android:minSdkVersion="8", 49

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Android, , android:targetSdkVersion="15" />, , <application, android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher", android:label="@string/app_name", android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >, , <activity, android:name=".MainActivity", android:label="@string/title_activity_main" >, , <intent-filter>, <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />, <category, android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>, , </intent-filter>, </activity>, </application>, </manifest>, If either the MAIN action or LAUNCHER category are not declared for one of your activities,, then your app icon will not appear in the Home screen's list of apps., Let's try to run our modified Hello World! application we just modified. We assume, you had, created your AVD while doing environment setup. To run the app from Eclipse, open one of, your project's activity files and click Run, icon from the toolbar. Eclipse installs the app on, your AVD and starts it and if everything is fine with your setup and application, it will display, Emulator window and you should see following log messages in LogCat window in Eclipse, IDE:, 07-19 15:00:43.405: D/Android :(866): The onCreate() event, 07-19 15:00:43.405: D/Android :(866): The onStart() event, 07-19 15:00:43.415: D/Android :(866): The onResume() event, , 50

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Android, , Let us try to click Red button, on the Android emulator and it will generate following events, messages in LogCat window in Eclipse IDE:, 07-19 15:01:10.995: D/Android :(866): The onPause() event, 07-19 15:01:12.705: D/Android :(866): The onStop() event, Let us again try to click Menu button, on the Android emulator and it will generate following, events messages in LogCat window in Eclipse IDE:, 07-19 15:01:13.995: D/Android :(866): The onStart() event, 07-19 15:01:14.705: D/Android :(866): The onResume() event, Next, let us again try to click Back button, on the Android emulator and it will generate, following events messages in LogCat window in Eclipse IDE and this completes the Activity, Life Cycle for an Android Application., 07-19 15:33:15.687: D/Android :(992): The onPause() event, 07-19 15:33:15.525: D/Android :(992): The onStop() event, 07-19 15:33:15.525: D/Android :(992): The onDestroy() event, , 51

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