C H A P T E R  12

Programming in Android with the Eclipse IDE

This chapter is all about how to program with the Eclipse IDE, which is a great tool to use when creating an Android application. I already talked in Chapter 1 about how to set up the Eclipse IDE with the Java JDK and the Android SDK.

This chapter is for those Android developers who have never programmed before. You will discover how Java, Android’s main programming language, works, and there is an application that you can write at the end. The purpose of this chapter is to make you as an Android developer understand the programming commitment that must be made in order to put out an application that will succeed in the crowded market. I hope that it helps you figure out how long it will take to write your application so that you can create a marketing plan around its creation.

If you want to learn about Android programming in greater detail, I highly recommend reading Android Apps for Absolute Beginners (Apress, 2010), by Wallace Jackson, a programming master whose book helped me out quite a bit.