FIRST ANDROID PROGRAM ( HELLO - - WORLD )

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We will be concentrating on creating the first android tutorial for dummies.

Click file and create a new android project as shown below

 Fill in the Application Name, Project Name, Package Name and select the Minimum Required SDK and the Target SDK  by choosing in the dropdown list as shown below

Fill in the fields as shown on the screen shot above.

Click on Next  button,  and  now the other important setting we need to set up before we can launch our project is setting up the launcher icon but normally if you will not set up the launcher icon the default android icon will always occur, but now I want us to set on our own icon rather than the default icon. See the screenshot below 

Navigate through the foreground buttons which are Image, Clipart and Text. For our case we will be using Text  and we set our Text to hello. We can change the font, crop the image, add shape to our text and change the Background and the Foreground colors depending on your choice.

Click Next and create the MainActivity.java and the activity_main.xml  as shown in the screen shot below.

 

 The MainActivity represents the Activity Name and activity_main represents the Layout Name. Now click finish.

This is how the android project would be like so that you cannot  have some difficult time tracing the folders. The MainActivity is in the src folder and the activity_main is in the Layout folder, as shown below

 On your IDE menu click project, then clean the project after that you are good to run your first android program

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