Android introduction

Android Programming Tutorial

                Android is an open source and Linux-based operating system for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. Android was developed by the Open Handset Alliance, led by Google, and other companies.

                This tutorial will teach you basic Android programming and will also take you through some advance concepts related to Android application development.

                  This tutorial has been prepared for the beginners to help them understand basic Android programming. After completing this tutorial you will find yourself at a moderate level of expertise in Android programming.

Features of Android

The Android features are listed below  

                                               

Android Applications

                    Android applications are usually developed in the Java language using the Android Software Development Kit.

                                  Once developed, Android applications can be packaged easily and sold out either through a  Google Play Store or the Amazon Appstore.

     The requirements of android application development are

           1.JAVA JDK 5/JDK6/JDK7

            2.Android SDK

            3.Android development tool(ADT) Eclipse Plugin

             4.Eclipse IDE for JAVA developers

     Here last two components are optional and if you are working on Windows machine then these components make your life easy while doing Java based application development. So let us have a look how to proceed to set required environment.