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Our final article in the Half Dozen Hello Worlds will introduce you to activities. What is an activity? How do you open new activities?

Intents are just what they sound like, a way to declare to the Android Framework what you intend to do. This can be starting a specific activity, or it can be just asking Android to find some program that can perform an action (whether or not you know what programs are available).

This tutorial covers what a Layout is and gives examples of the five types of layout that come with the Android Framework. Examples are given for AbsoluteLayout, FrameLayout, LinearLayout, RelativeLayout, and TableLayout.

Half Dozen Hello Worlds explores different forms of Android I/O through six simple programs. Part 5 uses OpenGL, a 3D graphics library, to render Hello World using Line Segments.

Half Dozen Hello Worlds explores different forms of Android I/O through six simple programs. Part 4 has Android actually saying “Hello World” using its Text to Speech capabilities.

Half Dozen Hello Worlds explores different forms of Android I/O through six simple programs. Part 3 looks at two types of pop-up messages that allow you to communicate with the user outside of the normal program flow.

Half Dozen Hello Worlds explores different forms of Android I/O through six simple programs. Part 1 gets you creating your first android program and using a simple widget to display “Hello World” to the user.

Half Dozen Hello Worlds explores different forms of Android I/O through six simple programs. Part two of this series introduces the use of Layout XML files.

Get setup to do Development for Android phones using Eclipse and Java.