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How to Build an application on Android for mobile devices

May 14, 2008 10:45 PM

Code snippet showing Android database query and list item click handling in Java.

This video tutorial is about Android, and no it's not a robotic creature, it's a software platform and operating system form mobile phones and PDAs. The Android system is based on Linux and was developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance. Code is managed in the Java language, but can be written in C also, although C is not officially supported. A lot of the new cell phone and other mobile devices will be running off of Android, so know how to use it.

This is about building an Android Application. See how Dan Morrill builds a simple application on the Google Android platform.

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