Hello Android - Your first Application

plusminus · by **plusminus** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 1:46 pm

Building your very first "Hello Android" - Application

What is this: This tutorial shows how to create the simplest application possible at all.
What you learn: Create an Android-Project in Eclipse, alter some code and create a Run-Configuration.

Difficulty: 0.5 of 5 :wink:

What it will look like:

Follow these steps:
1. At first, we have to create a new Project. Right-Click on some free space in your Package-Explorer.

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2. Select "Android Project"

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3. Fill out the form with the Structures you like...

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4. This all is the code for your first Android-Application (don't panic, mostly all of them are resource-files)

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5. Navigate to the "Hello_Android.java" and replace the text with the following:

You find the copy-paste-able text on the end of this Post...

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6. Open the Run--DropDown in the upper menu and Click "Open Run Dialog..."

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7. Click on browse and select your project (there should be just this one). Done that, click Apply and then Run.

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8. The Emulator is booting...

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9. The "Home"-App is loading...

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10. Congratulations, this is your very first Hello-Android-Application!

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The full source :roll:

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package org.anddev.android.Hello_Android;
 
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.TextView;
 
public class Hello_Android extends Activity {
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
        super.onCreate(icicle);
        // We want to view some very simple text, so we need a TextView
        TextView tv = new TextView(this);
        // Put some text to the newly created TextVIew
        tv.setText("Hello Android - by: anddev.org n" +
                        "This is soooo simple =D ");
        // Tell our App to display the textView
        this.setContentView(tv); 
    }
}
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Regards,
plusminus

tum0rc0re · by **tum0rc0re** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 7:29 am

Thanks for this article

I just begin to learn Android and all articles from this forum are very useful for me

plusminus · by **plusminus** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 10:42 am

Hello tum0rc0re,

Thanks

.

And You can help to spread this even more!
As we are already the board with the most visitor (400 uniques /day :!:

) and non-fake topics/posts and with the most real users (there are so fuc**** much fake-boards with hundreds of fake-topics, having each about 5 reads :evil:

),
we have unfortunately dropped far in the Google-Search-Rankings, being overtaken by fake-stuff :evil:

. Thant sucks hard :!:

We do need the help of the Community :!:

Tell you friends/fellow programmers of this board, make a post in your blog, to keep this the best resource for learning/discussing Android from now until .... ever

Best Regards,
plusminus

tum0rc0re · by **tum0rc0re** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 11:29 am

plusminus, ok

Although, my friends are not interested Android platform, but I post ad in my blog

Here - http://tum0rc0re.blogspot.com/2007/11/n ... forum.html

plusminus · by **plusminus** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 5:06 pm

Thank you. Everything helps :!:

Regards,
plusminus

adsouza · by **adsouza** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 9:55 pm

[font=Comic Sans MS]hello plusminus:

my gosh! i just had a look at your tutorial and
was flabbergasted. :shock:

terrific! with pictures and so on.

thank you very much indeed. :roll:

Aaron
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plusminus · by **plusminus** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 10:10 pm

I'm just making them the way I would like them best

Regards,
plusminus

XterierK · by **XterierK** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:34 am

This site will be growing at the rate these tutorials are being produced, your amazing, thanks!

WinerFresh · by **WinerFresh** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:20 pm

It can be easier(maby only for me

).
The code - Hello.java is:

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package com.winerfresh.hello;
 
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
 
public class Hello extends Activity {
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
        super.onCreate(icicle);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
    }
}
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The code - main.xml is:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    >
<TextView  
    android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
    android:text="@string/tekst"
    />
<TextView  
    android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
    android:text="@string/tekst2"
    />
</LinearLayout>
 
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and the code - strings.xml is

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <string name="app_name">Hello world, android!</string>
    <string name="tekst">Hello world<br /></string>
    <string name="tekst2">tested</string>
</resources>
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plusminus · by **plusminus** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 8:49 pm

Hello winerfresh,

thanks for your code, but we have almost the same :arrow: here.

Best Regards,
plusminus

ramcosca · by **ramcosca** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:57 am

Awesome.

I'm going to start learning to develop for Android after the 13th, when I finish my final exams. During my breaks I've been looking for sites to help me but many are just so advanced. I know nothing of Java / JavaScript. I hope that with these simple tutorials I'll be able to help and push Android at least a bit forward.

Hurrah for Android, hurrah for this site. Congratulations on making such a dev / future dev magnet!

By the way, off-topic, man what version of phpBB is this? I like it a lot! Tons of features I had never seen!

plusminus · by **plusminus** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:36 pm

Hello ramcosa,

at first: thx for the laud =)
This site would be nothing without this community :!:

ramcosca wrote:I know nothing of Java / JavaScript. I hope that with these simple tutorials I'll be able to help and push Android at least a bit forward.

You should get to know at least some basic principles about Java (the whole Object-Orientated thing), before starting with Android.

ramcosca wrote:Hurrah for Android, hurrah for this site. Congratulations on making such a dev / future dev magnet!

it is a lot of work, but as I can see, how many people are reading all this (most tutorials have ~ 1000 Reads by now :!:

) it makes me (and the others too) work even more

ramcosca wrote:By the way, off-topic, man what version of phpBB is this? I like it a lot! Tons of features I had never seen!

Its phpBB2 with at lot of extra Mods (also some own), like Attachment, AdvancedBB, AntiSpam, SyntaxHighliting ,...

At this point a big thx to madmax how is the MainAdmin of all that php-stuff

Best Regards,
plusminus

tijames · by **tijames** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:32 am

In Eclipse it says in problems that I have unparsed aapt error(s)

Location is unknown, can someone tell me me how to fix this?

And just so you know, I'm running a powermac G5 and using eclipse version: 3.3.1.1

Thanks a lot.

plusminus · by **plusminus** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:23 pm

Hello tijames,

are you using a >SUN< JDK :?:

Regards,
plusminus

tijames · by **tijames** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:09 am

Well I don't think so (sorry, I'm an uber-nOOb).
Anyway, I first downloaded Eclipse - Europa for mac and got the ADT plugin for it.
Then I downloaded the SDK, put it into my documents, linked eclipse to it and then started trying to create the Hello_Android app. When I tried to run it, it said that the aapt file was unparsed, I looked in the console to see where it is and I found it inside the SDK.
I opened the inspector in mac OS X and read the info on the aapt, it said it was a unix executable file (intel) and I have a PowerPC mac so yeah.... I'm just wondering if there is anyway around the problem?

Hello Android - Your first Application

Hello Android - Your first Application

Re: Building your very first "Hello Android" - App

Very nice tutorial!

Re: Very nice tutorial!

unparsed aapt error

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