By Jo McDonough

This ebook deals a full of life creation to the learn equipment and strategies to be had to English language academics who desire to examine elements in their personal perform. It covers qualitative and quantitative method and comprises sections on remark, introspection, diary stories, experiments, interviews, questionnaires, numerical suggestions, and case examine examine.

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On the Search Results page of the Updates window, select the Android Plugin and then click Finish. Chapter 3: Downloading and Installing the Android SDK 9. On the Feature License page of the Install window, shown next, accept the licensing agreement for the Android Development Tools and click Next. NOTE Keep in mind that all Eclipse plugins are installed to the %installpath%/eclipse/plugins directory. This information will help you if you need to locate the files that make up the Android plugin.

This is the source code folder for the given sample application. You can use this to view, edit, and recompile the code for any of the applications. Take advantage of this source code to learn some tricks and tips about the Android platform. Android Tools The Android SDK supplies developers with a number of powerful and useful tools. Throughout this book, you will use only a handful of them directly. This section takes a quick look at just a few of these tools, which will be covered in much more depth in the following chapters, as you dive into command-line development.

Exe creates a small partition drive on your drive that will hold and retain the test files. The emulator will treat this partition like an SD Memory Card. exe is the compiler of the Android SDK. dex extensions—Dalvik executable format. These files are in the correct format to be understood by, and run on, an Android device. NOTE Android executable files are called Dalvik executable files as a reference to the Dalvik virtual machine that Android used to run all applications. The Dalvik virtual machine runs each application in its own thread with the same priority as core Android applications.

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