2. Mastering the Android Development Tools
Android developers are fortunate to have more than a dozen development tools at their disposal to help facilitate the design of quality applications. Understanding what tools are available and what they can be used for is a task best done early in the Android learning process, so that when you are faced with a problem, you have some clue as to which utility might be able to help you find a solution. Most of the tools for Android development are integrated into Eclipse using the ADT plug-in, but they can also be launched independently—you’ll find the executables in the /tools subdirectory of the Android SDK installation. In this chapter, we walk through a number of the most important tools available for ...
Get Learning Android™ Application Programming for the Kindle Fire™: A Hands-On Guide to Building Your First Android Application now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
