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in going about their day in a more ecient manner. By installing the application ontheir two phones I was able to test the application on two other physical devices, bothrunning dierent versions of the Android platform. On of the phones was running arather dated Android 2.2 and meant I had to tweak some of the code in order to runit. In the end I decided that the Android 4.x platform will be my target as there wastoo much to consider due to Android fragmentation.I have learned a lot while working on this project and I think I would feel comfortabledeveloping another application and improving this one in the future.6 ConclusionWhen choosing a new platform to develop for there will always be complicationsalong the way and a proper amount of time must be taken to become comfortabledeveloping for the platform. For myself learning the tools available with the Androidand well as the framework of an Android application took some time. As with mostprogrammers I began with the famous Hello World program rst seen in Kernighanand Ritchie's The C Programming Language. Google provides a few good introductorytutorials on their developer website. I found that they are lacking in number andcomplexity however. The tutorials are usually pretty simple and they do not cover alarge amount of topics. I should note that the API documentation is excellent. Butagain, navigating it requires the developer to be somewhat experienced and to knowwhat he/she is looking for.The Android tools provided with the SDK were excellent, with the exception of thegraphical layout editor. I found myself manually editing the layout's xml most of thetime. The ADT plugin provides a perfect development environment in my opinion,though I am likely too fond of Eclipse to provide a fair and balanced opinion.30