1. 26/05/2016 E.R.Edwards 26/05/2016 Staffordshire University School of Computing Introduction to Android Practical 1 Changing the Eclipse Workspace Importing Existing Projects into Eclipse Updating the Android SDK Practical Exercises

2. 26/05/2016 E.R.Edwards 26/05/2016 Staffordshire University School of Computing Importing an Existing Project into Eclipse F File F Import F Existing Project into workspace F Find project required and click Ok F Click Finish and project should be imported

3. 26/05/2016 E.R.Edwards 26/05/2016 Staffordshire University School of Computing Importing Existing Project (cont)

4. 26/05/2016 E.R.Edwards 26/05/2016 Staffordshire University School of Computing Changing the Workspace F File F Switch Workspace F Other.... F Browse F Find workspace directory F Ok F OK

5. 26/05/2016 E.R.Edwards 26/05/2016 Staffordshire University School of Computing Updating Android SDK F Ensure Eclipse is closed. F Find Android-sdk-windows directory F Click on SDK Manager.exe F Select Available packages F Tick box for all required updates F Click install selected button F If necessary accept licence agreement F If it fails to access the download site correctly at the university check the proxy settings (in settings) and tick force HTTPs box HTTP proxy server - Cruscashe-int.staffs.ac.uk HTTP proxy Port - 3128

6. 26/05/2016 E.R.Edwards 26/05/2016 Staffordshire University School of Computing Take a look at the Samples F Each platform comes with a set of example apps to demonstrate the code needed. F The samples are found in the Android SDK folder under samples /Platform –List of sample programs http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/index.html –How to access samples http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/get.html F Samples are added to Eclipse by –Create a new project –Tick create from existing project –Navigate to saved sample

7. 26/05/2016 E.R.Edwards 26/05/2016 Staffordshire University School of Computing Practical Exercise F Read the following sections of Android developers site –What is Android –http://developer.android.com/guide/basics/what-is-android.html –Application Fundamentals –http://Developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.htmlhttp://Developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html –User Interface –http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/index.htmlhttp://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/index.html –Application Resources –http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/index.htmlhttp://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/index.html F Check out the tutorials in the resources section –http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/index.htmlhttp://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/index.html F Start on Notepad tutorial –http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/notepad/index.htmlhttp://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/notepad/index.html F Take a look at AppInventor on Google. –http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/