Chapter 2

First Steps with the Android SDK

The Android SDK provides a set of tools that allows you to create applications in no time. This chapter will guide you through the process of building a simple Android application with the SDK tools. This involves the following steps:

1. Setting up the development environment.
2. Creating a new project in Eclipse and writing your code.
3. Running the application on the emulator or on a device.
4. Debugging and profiling the application.

Let's start with setting up the development environment.