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3. Application Fundamentals

Ted Hagos1 
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We will create a simple project. It will not do anything but simply display a text field. The point of the exercise is to familiarize ourselves with the Android Studio development environment.

Creating a Project

Launch the Android Studio IDE if it isn’t open yet. You will be greeted by the opening screen (Figure 3-1).
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Figure 3-1.

Welcome to Android Studio

There are a couple of things you can do from this opening dialog window, but the only thing we will do is to start a new ...

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