Chapter    6

Project: Movie Player

In the previous chapter, we explored ADT for Eclipse. We reviewed the ADT views and tools, and how to involve them during day-to-day Android development. In this chapter, we will start putting all the tools and concepts that we have discussed in the previous chapters into action.

Our first Android project is a simple movie player application. Since the purpose of this experiment is to see Android development on Eclipse in action, we will not go too deeply into the Android framework APIs. In the next chapters, we will continue to build on this simple project.

An Overview of the Movie Player

Our movie player application will be a simple single activity application that will present a list of movie files, which ...

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