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Steps for Android Studio - Environment Setup

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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 Laun...

Core Building Blocks of Android

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Android Application Components The basic components of any  android  application are as follows: Activities Services Broadcast Receivers Content Providers Android Application components Activities An activity is a class that represents a single screen. It is like a Frame in AWT.Activity is a Java code that supports a screen or UI.Since mobile phone screens are small, an activity typically takes up the whole screen. If you open multiple activities they are stacked at top of each other . You can’t arrange activities side by side, like you can do with desktop windows. Syntax public class MainActivity extends Activity { } Services A service is a component which runs in the background without direct interaction with the user. As the service has no user interface, it is not bound to the lifecycle of an activity. They handle background processing associated with an application. There are two types of services local and remote. Local service is accessed f...