I was recently assigned to do an Android project for work that involves building mutable gauges. So, I thought it would be easy enough to just make an arc (90d to 360d) and have the values of the gauge fill in the arc. I can't get the arc to display on the screen. When opened it just displays the hello world string. Anyone get a few lines I can look at to see what I'm doing wrong? Also, if you now of a good shapes tutorial, I would greatly appreciate the forward.
~Thanks

You need to make a layout file (xml file) containing the "look" of app (or more then one file for each activity if you have more then one). Then you have to use setContentView(R.layout.whateverYourFileIsCalled); to set it to the screen.

I highly recommend looking through a few online tutorials and/or picking up a book (or two) on android app development. Although it utilizes the java programming language, there are many differences from making a java app or applet for the computer.

I had a layout for the the arc, however I did put it in the main.xml sheet. Is it absolutely required that i place it in its own file or can I place it in main? And do I need to reference the arc by class name or just a generic arc tag? The tutorials I have and books I'm reading through aren't entirely clear on this.

You need to place it in main and overwrite what is already there.