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    Build Your First App: You Earned The First

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    The document provides an overview of building a simple "Hello World" Android app. It discusses two key concepts: apps can provide multiple entry points through components like activities and broadcasts, and apps must adapt to different devices by providing alternative resources. It then instructs the reader to create a new project and interface for an app that takes user input and switches screens to display it, before learning more about other app components and device configurations.

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    Build your first app


    This section describes how to build a simple Android app. First, you learn how to create a
    "Hello, World!" project with Android Studio and run it. Then, you create a new interface for the
    app that takes user input and switches to a new screen in the app to display it.

    Before you start, there are two fundamental concepts that you need to understand about
    Android apps: how they provide multiple entry points, and how they adapt to different devices.

    Apps provide multiple entry points Apps adapt to different devices

    Android apps are built as a combination of Android allows you to provide different
    components that can be invoked individually. resources for different devices. For example,
    For example, an activity is a type of app you can create different layouts for different
    component that provides a user interface screen sizes. The system determines which
    (UI). layout to use based on the screen size of the
    current device.
    The "main" activity starts when the user taps
    your app's icon. You can also direct the user If any of your app's features need speci c
    to an activity from elsewhere, such as from a hardware, such as a camera, you can query at
    noti cation or even from a different app. runtime whether the device has that hardware
    or not, and then disable the corresponding
    Other components, such as broadcast
    features if it doesn't. You can specify that
    receivers and services, allow your app to
    your app requires certain hardware so that
    perform background tasks without a UI.
    Google Play won't allow the app to be
    installed on devices without them.
    After you build your rst app, you can learn
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    compatibility overview
     (/guide/practices/compatibility).

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