Create the App
It’s time to build our app, and we’re going to let Android Studio do a bunch of the work for us. Open up Android Studio and you’ll be presented with a screen that looks like the image shown.
Click the Create New Project link, select the Empty Activity option, and click the Next button.
On this next screen, we’re going to set some values for our app:
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Name: the name of the application we’ll see everywhere. For this app, we can use Penny Drop.
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Package name: this value serves a dual purpose with Android apps. First, it’s the unique application ...
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