How to Create and Run Your First Android Project

This post explains how to create and run an Android project on Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) in windows environment.

Once you have configured your system for android development and set up an Emulator to see your output, you can start creating your first Android project. Here I explained how to create a new android project in Eclipse and to see its output using the emulator we created before. 

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How to Create an Android Virtual Device

This post deals with how to create an Android Virtual Device (AVD) in your windows machine. 

Once you configured your system for Android development, you have to create an Android virtual device (AVD) to simulate your application that is being developed. Once you create an Android virtual device you can install apk files to that Emulator, view output from Eclipse IDE, debug your application etc.

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How To Configure Your System For Android Development

Android development could be started with free of cost as all the development environment is open source and could be freely downloaded from the internet. Here I am going to explain how to configure your machine for Android development for an existing Eclipse IDE. This post deals with the configuration of Eclipse for the development of Android applications in Windows machine.

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How to Sign Application using ADT Export Wizard

When your application is ready for release or upload to Android market, you must compile in release mode and then sign the .apk with your private key. This post explains how to create your own private key (private certificate) and also how to sign your application using that private key using ADT Export Wizard integrated with Eclipse.  

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