More Android Development

So far, I've managed to set up Eclipse to use the Android dev. tools and completed the 'Hello World' tutorial. This proved relatively simple, except for the matter of getting the entire emulator visible on a Macbook display. My resolution is 1280x800 and the Android emulator wants to display something 800 pixels high. Luckily, I discovered that you can pass the emulator a command line option to scale the device on screen:

emulator -scale 0.75


The full list of options is available at http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/emulator.html

There's a 'Notepad Tutorial' to try next, so I'll probably do enough of that to get a decent idea of the components available, then start digging around the reference documentation for the components I'll actually need for one of the ideas I have (more on this later!)