Tonight I wrote my first Android app in Eclipse @ IProfs, a dutch Java consultancy company. They had prepared a good presentation on Android and a step-by-step tutorial for setting up my first app. We wrote a simple todo application which gave a pretty good overview of some of Adroid’s capabilities. I was surprised how fast I could get started building. All I had to do, since I had Eclipse preinstalled on my Mac, was:

 

• install the Android SDK and the ADT plugin (Android Developer Tools)
• restart Eclipse
• create a new Android project in Eclipse
• go to ‘run as’ ‘Android Application’
• create a virtual for the Android OS in the popup presented
• and BAM! I was saying hello to the world (well, I actually had to restart Eclipse since the first startup of the VM choked my workspace)

After some tweaking in a Java file, an xml resource and a Android xml UI layout file I had made my first todo app.

The structure of Android apps is really easy and the programming model is fun to work with. The set of tools gives you code completion, since its Java and xml by xsd. The VM option, as said before, makes it possible to run the apps you create without having an actual Android phone hooked up to your computer.

I had fun creating this simple app and am looking forward to start working on an actual Android app.

resources:
developer.android.com
groups.google.com/group/android-developers