Android Application Development Tutorial - 4 - Setting up an Android Project Video Lecture | Android Application Development (Mobile App) - Software Development

what's up guys welcome your fourth
Android tutorial for the new boss in
again with me Travis and what we're
gonna do in this tutorial is basically
set up a package set up a project that
we're gonna work with from here on out
so before we can set up a project you
guys want to go in to set up your
preferences for the most part and locate
the SDK that we downloaded in the last
tutorial now if you're running on
Windows you want to go up to the windows
tab that's where I got confused in that
other tutorial and under the windows tab
there should be something called
preferences right down here but on a Mac
Mac computer you won't go under the
Eclipse tab and the Preferences is right
here so you click that and then you go
to this folder called Android that's now
located there now you're welcome Android
SDK you're welcome proceed alright
computers frozen awesome so ok no it's
not but ok so sorry for losing focus
they're going to this Android tab or
just click on the Android and all sorts
errors are coming up and now what we
want to do is locate the SD card SDK
folder that we set up so we're gonna
browse and again I told you guys to set
it up in your hard drive so it's pretty
easy to find so just go to your C Drive
or your main hard drive and look for the
SD the Android SDK folder right here
just click on this folder you don't want
to go into anything in here just click
on the whole folder hit open and it'll
load some up or hit apply and then load
some of our platforms that we downloaded
again we download the 2.2 and the Google
Maps so we want to select 2.2 because
that's we're gonna start with hit apply
or hit OK and now what we can do is
right click within our package Explorer
now if you guys exited out of this
package Explorer because you're trying
to clean up and now you're like oh crap
we needed that it's pretty easy to get
back down in this bottom left corner you
click and right here is package Explorer
and then we can just drag and drop this
into our workspace and again right click
go to new and you'll either have an
android project right here if not that's
ok I don't obviously so we're going to
go to other
and we're gonna go to this Android
folder and set up an Android project
like that now this is the basic setup
for setting up a new project we're gonna
give it a name we're gonna call it the
new Boston and we're also we also need
to select our build target and our build
target is again what platform we are
developing for we're gonna felt for the
to point to and here's some other things
that we need to define now we have an
application name this is what's gonna
appear on the users end when they're
scrolling through all their applications
this is the name of our application so
we're gonna leave that as the new Boston
if you guys want to change that that's
okay the package name basically we want
this to be unique because when we put
our application on the marketplace if
there's another app that has this
package name you won't be able to upload
it so we're gonna make it unique in
general generally you want to
identifiers so you're gonna say like T
dot T and that would be two identifiers
for the most part but generally what
people do to make make sure the
application is unique is that if they
have a website they do it backwards like
com dot the new Boston
dot Travis and that's just gonna be our
package name hopefully that's unique
enough for the marketplace again you
need two identifiers and you do that by
hitting the period to create a new
identifier for the most part now this
create activity this is basically the
activity or the class that's gonna start
when our emulator or when our
application launches so we're gonna call
this starting point like that one word
if you guys have two words it's gonna
give you an air and you won't be able to
finish so make sure it's one word we're
gonna call this activity starting point
we're just gonna finish and it's going
to set up a project for us as you can
see right here gives us an error because
it's still building the project it takes
a little bit alright so there we go we
have our project set up and I'm gonna
kind of define what this project holds
and how to add folders to it in the next
tutorial so hopefully you guys got
follow along and understood how to
establish a new project and I'll catch
you guys in the next tutorial peace