2 Know your Eclipse

Hope Eclipse runs on your computer , it will show a window similar to this.

Lets explore about different panes inside the eclipse window and learn about functions of each of them.

1. Package Explorer: Shows all the Project in your current workspace. The red cross mark on the icon of a project shows that it contains error(s).
2. Tool Bar: contains all the shortcuts for the tools that are generally required during development. Some important tools are run , debug, breakpoint etc.
3. This is your working area. Shows the content of current file and contains all the opened file in tabs at top.
4. Palette: Contains some predefined layouts, and graphical objects like buttons and text box. This is only visible if a graphical layout of a xml file is opened.
5. Side Bar: contains Outline of current file and properties of current selected object.
6. This area contains some of the important tools like console and logcat. Console is like a chat window where Eclipse tells you what it is doing. While Logcat contains list of log reports. We will explore about them later.

So now you know your Eclipse, so lets do some setup before starting your first project.