Android

Android - Developer Tools Tutorial

The android developer tools let you create interactive and powerful application for android platform. The tools can be generally categorized into two types.

SDK tools

Platform tools

SDK tools

SDK tools are generally platform independent and are required no matter which android platform you are working on. When you install the Android SDK into your system, these tools get automatically installed. The list of SDK tools has been given below −

Sr.No Tool & description 1 android : This tool lets you manage AVDs, projects, and the installed components of the SDK
2 ddms : This tool lets you debug Android applications
3 Draw 9-Patch : This tool allows you to easily create a NinePatch graphic using a WYSIWYG editor
4 emulator This tools let you test your applications without using a physical device
5 mksdcard : Helps you create a disk image (external sdcard storage) that you can use with the emulator
6 proguard : Shrinks, optimizes, and obfuscates your code by removing unused code
7 sqlite3 : Lets you access the SQLite data files created and used by Android applications
8 traceview : Provides a graphical viewer for execution logs saved by your application
9 Adb : Android Debug Bridge (adb) is a versatile command line tool that lets you communicate with an emulator instance or connected Android-powered device.

Android Tutorial

Android is an open source and Linux-based operating system for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. Android was developed by the Open Handset Alliance, led by Google, and other companies.

This tutorial will teach you basic Android programming and will also take you through some advance concepts related to Android application development.

Audience

This tutorial has been prepared for the beginners to help them understand basic Android programming. After completing this tutorial you will find yourself at a moderate level of expertise in Android programming from where you can take yourself to next levels.

Prerequisites

Android programming is based on Java programming language so if you have basic understanding on Java programming then it will be a fun to learn Android application development.