Android for Absolute Beginners: Getting Started with Mobile Apps Development Using the Android Java SDK

© Grant Allen 2021

G. AllenAndroid for Absolute Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6646-5_3

3. Your First Android Application, Already!

Grant Allen¹  

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LONDON, UK

 

With Android Studio in place on your computer, you are ready to begin creating your very first Android application. Yes, right now! For those readers who are not familiar with Java code development, do not panic. We will start our examples in this chapter with no assumed Java knowledge or know-how. For those readers who do know Java, read on in any case as we will cover the important first step of creating an Android Virtual Device, or AVD, on which to run the example in this chapter, as well as the examples in future chapters.

Creating Your First Android Virtual Device

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