How to create android project in the IDE is actually quite simple. Of note, all of the step-step as necessary, install the SDK, emulator, and android plugin in eclipse, has been completed. If not,
install the SDK reference pages are available for your android. After all it is prepared, let's start creating a new project, do the following:
- Run eclipse, then head to
File » New » Project...
- Choose
Android Project
, then click Next >
- Fill in the name of the project you want and where you want to save the project source, and press
Next >
- Select the build target you want. If it is empty, meaning it needs to add first. how:
- Open the menu
Window » Android SDK Manager
- Select the package and build the target you want to use
- Accept the license granted
- Be patient waiting for the download and install the package. After that, restart enclipse and build targets that you selected earlier, will be available for use.
- Fill in some needed info. Among them:
- Application Name: Name of the project you want
- Package Name: Will be used by the android market, as a unique identifier of your application
- Create Activity: Jump for the main activity (which will be directly on the street when the application is opened in the device)
- Minimum SDK: Most small platform target your application to be supported
After all it is filled, then press Finish
- This is the content of the activity are made by eclipse, if you choose to make a major activity, in the previous step. And this is the layout that accompanies activity definition above. Also automatically created, if you choose to make a major activity.
- Here's what the application, when run in the emulator or device.
So this tutorial, tutorials look forward to a more powerful, next.