Android Tutorial For Beginners With Examples

There are lots of reasons why more and more people are interested in learing how to be able to develop Android applications. Unarguably, Android is the most popular mobile operating system, with almost 2 billion devices activated and it offers a unified approach to application development for mobile devices.
That means, that developers need only develop for Android, and their applications will be able to run on different devices powered by Android. This particular asset gives Android endless possibilites! This means that and application that is designed to work on mobile phone devices can be also transfered to Android powered TV sets or Android Car systems.
This is why, Android is an exciting space to make apps that can help you in every aspect of your life, can help you communicate, organize, educate, entertain or just to make your life easier in every device that they might run on!

 

Table Of Contents

1. What is Android

2. Installing Android Studio

3. Android versions and Android SDK Manager

4. Supporting different screen sizes

5. Android Project Structure

6. Create “Hello Android World” application

6.1. Create a New Android Studio Project

6.2. Create the source code of a simple FirstAndroidApplication Activity

6.3. Create the layout of the project

6.4. Android Manifest

6.5. Edit the FirstAndroidApplication dimensions

6.6. Edit the FirstAndroidApplication strings

6.7. Add the drawable for every screen density

6.8. Build, compile and run

7. Download the Android Studio Project

8. How to continue?

 

In this special example, we are going to set our Android Development Studio IDE, make our very first Android application and discover the Android Development world in the easiest possible way.

The mobile development world can be very fun, because the direct results we see when creating our own application, can be highly motivating and rewarding.