Chapter 3: How to “Rough It” without Eclipse
In This Chapter
Using the command window
Thinking like an ant
Gearing up for text-based development
Developing with Ant and operating system commands
It’s time to celebrate! You’re near the end of Android Application Development All-in-One For Dummies. Sure, you may have skipped directly to this chapter, but that doesn’t matter. This chapter contains no spoilers. This isn’t where you learn that the butler murdered the heiress and that Larry Page is innocent.
Anyway, you’ll be an expert Android developer in no time at all, so please rejoice in your future success by throwing a big party.
To prepare for the party, I’ll bake a cake. I’m lazy, so I’ll use a ready-to-bake cake mix. Let me see . . . add water to the mix, and then add butter and eggs . . . Hey, wait a minute! I just looked at the list of ingredients. What’s MSG? And what about propylene glycol? That’s used in antifreeze, isn’t it?
I’ll change plans and make the cake from scratch. Sure, it’s a little harder. But that way, I get exactly what I want.
Application development works ...
