Saturday, February 2, 2013

APP INVENTOR - THE EASIEST ANDROID DEVELOPMENT TOOL

     App inventor from MIT is a free Graphical Development Tool for Android applications. You can start developing android applications in as little as 15 minutes.


Wednesday, September 19, 2012

DR. JAVA - A great choice for a Java Development Environment

   Dr. Java is a light development environment for the Java programming language.  The software is aimed to students and it has all the basic java tools as well as advanced ones.  The best thing about it is that it is free and it is continuously being updated and supported.  It also supports the most popular operating systems such as Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.




CHAPTER 2 - Your First App - Getting to know the Android Environment (PART 3)

     In this tutorial you will learn to build your very own Android user Interface or VIEW.  It is a great introduction to the Android Graphical User Interface using the layouts.   It will also give you information on how to modify and add actions to the many pre-built android objects.  If you are familiar with Adobe Flash then you should know that Eclipse provides the same type of development environment to your applications.



Monday, September 17, 2012

CHAPTER 2 - Your First App - Getting to know the Android Environment (PART 2)

   The second part of the the tutorial will teach you how to run your very own android application either from the emulator from Eclipse or on an actual device.  The emulator takes a really long time the first time you run it because it has to save the image file into your disk.  Every run after that should be a little bit faster.



Sunday, September 16, 2012

CHAPTER 2 - Your First App - Getting to know the Android Environment (PART 1)

   Here is a small tutorial to get starting on developing Android applications with Eclipse.  It is the really simple and everyone who was introduced to Android development is probably familiar with it.  This section will help you understand how the android development environment works.  After finishing you should have a basic understanding of Android. 

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

GALAXY S II (T-mobile) - Prepaid for $300 at Walmart

    Well if finally happened.  Walmart cut down the price of the Galaxy S II to $300.   I think you have to buy an extra $30 T-mobile Prepaid card.  The phone is still a good buy for a dual core processor.  Get it while it is available because it is sold out online.



Sunday, September 9, 2012

CHAPTER 1 - Installing the Android Development environment in Windows

     There are a few programs that you will need need in order to install the Android Development Environment.  This tutorial would be useful to you if you are familiar with the Windows Operating System and know how to install programs as well as unzipping files.

THINGS YOU WILL NEED

  1. Eclipse
  2. Java SDK 
  3. Android SDK
  4. Eclipse Plugin
SDK - Software Development Kit