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Definition, An emulator is hardware or software that enables one computer system (know as the host) to behave like another computer system (know as the guest) What is an Emulator in Android? An Android emulator is an Android Virtual Device (AVD) that represents a specific Android device. You can use an Android emulator as a target platform to run and test your Android applications on your PC It uses an open source processor emulator technology called   QEMU . Run your app on the emulator To use the Android Emulator, you must create an Android Virtual Device (AVD) using Android Studio. First, we need to create an AVD with the same device configurations as real device, then launch this AVD from AVD manager. 1.       In Command Line, navigate to android_sdk/tools/  and  start the Emulator  by specifying your AVD             emulator -avd avd_name      2. N ow you can install your app using either the Gradle install tasks mentioned above or      t

In this section, you learn about the various types of resources available to your application. When you create a project in  Android  Studio, you are provided with two main directories in your project for source files, java and res. Android  Resources Types anim/ color/ drawable/ layout/ menu/ raw/ Check out the detailed explanation about these Android Topics

This tutorial will explain you the Java OOP’S concepts. OOP Definition Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming language model that allows users to create and organize Java applications on desktops.Writing object-oriented programs involves creating classes, objects and applications which are stand-alone executable programs that use those objects.It simplifies the software development and maintenance by providing some concepts A few aspects of Object Oriented development,it can help to make the best of your Android projects, Objects  and Classes Inheritance Interface Encapsulation Abstraction Polymorphism Click here to know full details about these Java topics

If you’re new to Java, or just looking to brush up on the details, then you are in the exact place to get series of Free  Android Tutorials  ! Android programming  is based on Java programming language. If you know a basic understanding of Java programming, then it will be fun to learn Android application development. Java definition, Java was originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995. It is derived from C and C++ .“write once, run anywhere” – meaning that compiled Java code can run on all platforms that support Java without the need for recompilation. Java’s Important core features are: It’s easy to learn and understand It’s designed to be platform-independent and secure, using virtual machines(JVM bytecode interpreted on JVM) It’s object-oriented Developers can learn Java quickly. Check the Guidelines of Java Fundamental for   Android Development

Points to note before Developing your Android App 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. Android Studio is an easy to use (and free) app developing environment. .Building  Android applications  requires a deep knowledge of programming and design. Developers need to keep code flexible and account for a variety of user scenarios.   Check out  the following points while developing your First Android app

Understanding Activity Life Cycle in Android Before using  Android Activity  in your application, It is important to  learn about the complete details of an Android Activity Lifecycle. As a user navigates throughout an app, Android maintains the visited activities in a stack, with the currently visible activity always placed at the top of the stack. During its lifetime, an Android activity will be in one of the following states: Running Paused Stopped Killed Activity Life Cycle methods Android Activity Lifecycle  is controlled by 7 methods, They are as follows, onCreate()  onStart() onResume() onPause()  onStop() onDestroy()  onRestart() Lets have a quick look at the Activity lifecycle with diagram , Click Here

Android Studio 1.Start your Android application development on either of the following operating systems −           Microsoft Windows 10/8/7/Vista/2003 (32 or 64-bit)           Mac OS X 10.8.5 or higher, up to 10.9 (Mavericks)          KDE desktop Required tools to develop Android applications  are open source and can be downloaded from the Web. you will need before you start your Android application programming.The list of software's follows, Java JDK5 Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 Android Studio 2. Setup Android Studio IntelliJ IDEA  works on Android Studio, If you are new to installing Android Studio on windows,you will find a file, which is known as android-studio-bundle-143.3101438-windows.exe .So just download and run on windows machine . To setup your environment on Windows machine having Windows 8.1 operating system. Installing Android Studio Let’s Launch Android Studio.exe After launched Android Studio, we need to mentio