So far my blogs on starting software development of applications with Android has covered installation of Java (the building block of Android applications), the Android SDK (Googles software development kit for Android) and Eclipse (the integrated development environment for Java and Android). Now its time to use those items to actually develop Android software applications. It is traditional to begin programming in a new language by writing a simple "Hello World" program - a very simple application that displays the said message to announce to the world that you are now an Android programmer. This blog assumes that you have some basic knowledge in using the Eclipse IDE and the Java language. However, if you are new to the Eclipse and/or Java, there is a great video tutorial that can be found here (http://eclipsetutorial.sourceforge.net/totalbeginner.html). The same people there also makes a great video tutorial on the Eclipse workbench - the link to that is on the same page ...