Beginning Android Development

So for with Android development, here are a number of tips from my personal experience. There are number of tips that a developer could follow in his development process. Here are some of the important tips that could be useful for a user and Android developers as well.

Choice of IDE

Although I coded a few applications using IntelliJ IDEA’s community edition without any problem, most of the Android development is centered on Eclipse. For UI drag and drop interface, I don’t care much about Eclipse’s.

You’re Name Space

To uniquely identify you amongst the thousands of other apps available, the Android market uses the package name that you declare in your manifest. It is good idea to get in there early and make sure you can reserve your place, if you know ahead of schedule that you will be releasing a certain application.

Android’s platform patterns

To break the rules you first must know the rules, we all want our applications to be unique. Consider first trying to fit into the way people are already using Android applications, before you start cutting out your unique niche in the Android Market, because there are a lot of apps out there and we want them to play well together. You will already have an eager well educated bunch of users, if you tie yourself into their existing habits.

While creating views, Use hierarchy viewer

To statically explore activity UIs and can help you visualize complicated layouts, the view hierarchy give you a fine way for this purpose.