Getting Started with Android

Programming
Note: if you have already installed android
development tools, please check that you
have the same version as described here
 App Presentation
• Are you hungry?
• Presentations
– Talk about a cool app
• Download the app or apps (yes, you might need to pay a few bucks)
• PPT Slides with app views
• Compare to existing apps
• Use/search for app reviews
– Talk about something interesting in mobile computing
• E.g., android on Intel, qualcomm android tools, new/old company
• A few slides and be prepared to answer (tough) questions
– 15 minutes max, but in depth (we are all experts)
– Be prepared. If you are not prepared (i.e., haven’t spent enough time figuring everything out), ask to present
next time. Don’t waste our time.
• Web site that talk about apps and mobile technology (you should know keep up to date with these)
– techcrunch.com
• http://www.crunchbase.com/
– Techstars App showcase: http://techstars.appstores.com/
– Kichstarter.com
• http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/technology?ref=sidebar
– http://www.businessinsider.com/sai
• Search on android app and find many articles on different apps
– http://allthingsd.com/
 platform
• I will use windows
• Linux is fine
• You can use MAC, but will need to be a fairly
experienced MAC user. Otherwise, try using a
windows virtual machine or, if your machine
can boot into windows, use that.
• You must download and view powerpoint
documents in class
 Adobe Connect
• Go to
– http://udel.adobeconnect.com/bohacek
• Log in as guest
 Get Eclipse
• Complete information is also here:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html
• Download Eclipse Indigo Classic (v3.7.1)
– http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-classic-371/i
ndigosr1
– Note, if you have eclipse, please upgrade to Eclipse Classic v3.7.1,
that way, we all have the same version.
• After downloaded, decompress in a directory name eclipse
• Note, there is no installation for eclipse. Once it is
decompressed, you are ready to run it. But you can only
start eclipse by opening a file browser and double clicking
on eclipse.exe
 Get JDK
• Go to
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/jav
ase/downloads/index.html
• Get JDK6 or JDK5 (not JDK7 and not JRE)
– http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/
downloads/index.html
– Scroll down a bit to JDK 6
– Perhaps you already have JDK5 or 6
• Check c:\program files\java\jdk1.X.yyy, where X=5 or 6
 Get Android SDK
• Go to http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
• Install
– Will check that the correct version of jdk is installed.
– install in c:\Android
• After installing SDK, the SDK manager should run
– Select SDK Platform-tools
– Download each API version (or at least the ones >2.0)
• However, don’t download every package within the API version (it takes to
long). Instead, select SDK platform, samples, google api and then the package
for you phone.
– Also, download Android Support package
– And, google USB Driver package
 Install ADT Eclipse plugin
• For instructions, also see http://developer.android.com/sdk/eclipse-adt.html#installing
• Start eclipse
• Help –> install new software
• Click Add, in the top-right corner.
• In the Add Repository dialog that appears, enter "ADT Plugin" for the Name and the
following URL for the Location: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/
• Click OK
– Note: If you have trouble acquiring the plugin, try using "http" in the Location URL, instead of "https"
(https is preferred for security reasons).
• In the Available Software dialog, select the checkbox next to Developer Tools and
click Next.
• In the next window, you'll see a list of the tools to be downloaded. Click Next.
• Read and accept the license agreements, then click Finish.
• When the installation completes, restart Eclipse.
• Configuring the ADT Plugin
– Select Window > Preferences... to open the Preferences panel (Mac OS X: Eclipse > Preferences).
– Select Android from the left panel.
– You may see a dialog asking whether you want to send usage statistics to Google. If so, make your
choice and click Proceed. You cannot continue with this procedure until you clickProceed.
– For the SDK Location in the main panel, click Browse... and locate your downloaded SDK directory.
(maybe it is already correctly filled in)
– Click Apply, then OK.
 Subclipse
• In Eclipse
– Help -> install new software
– Select add
– In location, put  
http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.8.x
 Play with our set up
• Enable USB debugging on you phone
– Go to settings
– Approach 1 (depends on phone)
• Open Applications
• Development
• Check USB Debugging
– Approach 2
• {} Developer options
• Check USB debugging
– Approach 3
• Look around and check USB debugging
• Start eclipse
• Window -> open perspective -> other -> DDMS (! Not <DDMS>)
• Plug your phone via usb
• Under devices (upper left) you can see your phone
– If you can’t see you phone, check if you have a notification on you phone asking about whether to use USB debugging. Do not select USB storage
• In the upper middle, select the File Explorer tab
– Expand mnt
• Expand sdcard
– Expand DCM
» Expand Camera
• This is where your pictures are
– Expand data
• Should not work, since this is a protected directory that holds apps private data
• On the lower/middle left, select LogCat. This shows system messages.
– The messages are have level (debug, error, info,…)
• You can select which messages using the menu in the middle right
– Messages have tags and text
– We will use these messages extensively for debugging
• Near the top is a row of buttons. One button is a camera. Click on the camera and see your device screen shot
 Play with ADB
• Open a command prompt
• Change dir to c:\android\android-sdk\platform-tools
• > adb devices
– Shows the devices you have plugged in and the serial number
• >adb shell
– Opens a shell on the device
– > ls
– >cd /data
– >ls
• Still fails
– > su
• If you have rooted you phone, this will succeed
– > ls
• Works!
– > ps
• Shows everything running
 Make a Emulated Android Device
• Start eclipse
• Windows -> AVD Manger
• Opens a new window (maybe after a short delay)
• Select new
– Name: Test4
– Target: Google APIs API level 15
– SD Card Size: 1GiB
– Snapshot Enabled
– Level screen as default
– Click “Create AVD”
• Click on the device you just made and click on start
• It can take sometime to start. Be patient
• You should see the emulator in the eclipse DDMS fairly quickly, even as the
device is booting up