HelloWorld Application in Android

In this article, we are going to see, how to create a HelloWorld application in Android.

This application is developed in Eclipse ( 4.2.1 ) with ADT plugin ( 20.0.3 ) and Android SDK ( R20.0.3 )

1. Open Eclipse IDE




2. Click File -> New -> Project -> Android Application Project

As shown in the Figure 1 , enter HelloWorld as the project name

3. Design application launcher icon :

4. Create a blank activity

5. Enter MainActivity details

6. Delete Android Support Library from this project, if exists

By default Eclipse ( 4.2.1) adds Android Support Library to  Android application project. For this application, we don’t need to use this support library. So the library file libs/android-support-v4.jar may be removed manually via ProjectExplorer by simply right click on the file and then clicking the menu item “delete”

7. Run the application by clicking the menu Run -> Run . The output is shown below :