Creating our Hello World! program

So, let's create our first Hello World program. As you can see, you have a Palette in front of you besides the blue DUMMY CONTENT window. Simply drag and drop the TextView component onto your DUMMY CONTENT screen, as you can see in the following screenshot:

Dragging and dropping TextView component onto our screen

Notice the new Properties window when you successfully place TextView in the DUMMY CONTENT screen.

Now, you can see a blank Text View component on your screen, but there's nothing written on it. To have something written on it, we need to modify its properties a little. Check out the Properties on ...

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