Wednesday December 14, 2011

Hello Android!

Hello World Android! Took me long enough to get going, but here's my first honest-to-goodness Android app, running in the AVD emulator :

And here it is running on my Samsung Galaxy S2 :

Setting up the development environment was simple enough, follow Google's instructions, get the latest Eclipse (yes, I admit I've been a little out of touch lately), get the Android SDK, download the necessary files, libraries and the Android emulator and off I went.

The emulator did take all of 5 minutes or perhaps a bit more than that to boot up on my Acer laptop which up until now had yet to show its age, being perfectly useful for browsing and Microsoft Office and even the occasional VMWare. But now a 2.x GHz 8GB RAM replacement number looks mighty enticing. Running it on the actual device was also simple enough : look for the hello-android.apk in the bin folder, Gmail it to myself, install (application side-loading on the Galaxy S2 was enabled *out of the box*), take screenshot, Gmail screenshot back to myself, and voila.

So goes the saying : "You have taken your first step into a larger world." Or something along these lines.

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