Designing a Real App
Android apps can exploit all the device’s functionality, such as SMS messaging, location-based services, and touch input. In this book’s final programming project, you create a real app called Take Me To Your Leader.
This app takes advantage of an Android phone’s capabilities to make a phone call, visit a website, and load a location in Google Maps. The app puts you in touch with the White House via phone, Web, and maps. (If the president of the United States is not your leader, the app can be customized.)
To get started, you create a new project in Eclipse by performing these steps:
1. Click File, New, Android Project. The New Android Project Wizard opens.
2. In the Project Name field, enter Leader.
3. Make sure Create New ...
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