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Contents at a Glance

About the Author x

About the Technical Reviewer xi

Introduction xii

■Chapter 1: Android Primer 1

■Chapter 2: Application Architecture 27

■Chapter 3: Eclipse Primer 45

■Chapter 4: Mastering Eclipse 73

■Chapter 5: Android Development Tools for Eclipse 111

■Chapter 6: Project: Movie Player 151

■Chapter 7: Android Native Development Using Eclipse 185

■Chapter 8: Project: Extending Movie Player for AVI Movies 239

■Chapter 9: Android Scripting Using Eclipse 271

■Chapter 10: Project: Movie Player Using HTML and JavaScript 307

■Appendix A: Testing Android Applications 333

■Index 349

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Introduction

Android is one of the major players in the mobile phone market, and its market share is

continuously growing Android is the first complete, open, and free mobile platform, and it offers endless opportunities for mobile application developers As with all other platforms, having a robust and flexible development environment is the key for the platform's success

Eclipse is the most adopted integrated development environment (IDE) for Java programmers And now Eclipse is the preferred IDE for Android app developers

Android Apps with Eclipse provides a detailed overview of Eclipse, including the steps

and illustrations to help Android developers quickly get up to speed on Eclipse and to streamline their day-to-day software development

Who This Book Is For

This book is for both beginners and intermediate developers who would like to quickly come up

to speed on Android development using the Eclipse IDE

What You Will Learn

This book covers the following topics:

 How the Android platform works and the basics of Android application development

 How to use the most popular Java IDE, Eclipse, to develop Android applications

 How to install and configure Eclipse for Android development

 How to leverage Eclipse with the Android Native Development Kit (NDK) for C/C++ needs

 How to leverage Eclipse for scripting using Android's Scripting Layer for Android (SL4A)

 How to debug and troubleshoot Android applications using Eclipse

INDEX 357

Stress testing, 348

Synchronization, 226

Table layout, 32

Telephony service, 23

Testing See Android application

testing

Text mode debugging using ndk-gdb,

229–231

Threading, 11

constraints, 225–226

native threads, 226–227

synchronization, 226

TODO keywords, 86

Toolbars, 69

toolchains directory, 198

Type Hierarchy view, 79–81

USB service, 23

Vibrator service, 24

View object, 31

Views

fast views, 66–67

Quick views, 67

selection, 65

Viking Killer See Low memory killer

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Wakelocks, 11–12 Wallpaper service, 24 Widget, 31

Wi-Fi peer-to-peer service, 24 Wi-Fi service, 24

Workbench, 62–63 Working sets, 74–77 Assign Working Sets selection, 74 naming and adding elements, 75–

76 New Working Set wizard, 74–75 Package Explorer view

filtered, 77 menu, 76–77 Working Set Assignments dialog,

76 Workspace, 60–62

Yet Another Flash File System

(YAFFS2), 19

Zygote, 14–16