Twitter Client allows you to send a new tweets and view incoming tweets from friends. It is the first publicly released Android application, which was not developed by Google.

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Snake is the first ever publicly released application for the Android mobile platform. It was included in the Android SDK as a sample application.

This is an implementation of the classic Game “Snake”, in which you control a serpent roaming around the garden looking for apples. Be careful, though, because when you catch one, not only will you become longer, but you’ll move faster. Running into yourself or the walls will end the game.

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This is one of the sample game, which was extracted from the Android’s SDK. It showcases a simple 2D graphic implementation on this platform.

Lunar Lander is an arcade game, where the player must correctly land a lunar module exactly on the green landing pad, located on the surface of the moon. The moon’s gravitation field pulls the module down. Use the engine to resist hard landing but remember that the lunar module has a limited amount of fuel.

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Note Pad (a.k.a Notes List) is another sample Android application from Google with very basic functionality. It features a simple text processor and lists all noted in a linear structure. Users can  add, edit and delete notes.

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This tutorial assumes you have installed the SDK in the same directory as mentioned in the Tutorial for installation

Uninstalling a APK file is very simple jump into the command Prompt. ( Start -> Run-> type in “cmd” ). Now switch to the  \tools directory and run the command adb shell rm data/app/$APK where $APK is the name of the APK file.

For example: to uninstall the AndroidGlobalTime application, type in:

adb shell rm data/app/AndroidGlobalTime.apk

Note : You will need the Emulator to run to uninstall applications

Since we dont have any Android devices yet we have try out all these great application on the Android Emulator. So in this little tutorial we will see how to install the Android Emulator and how to get the .APK files to run on the emulator.

You will need to get the the Android SDK ( Software Development Kit ). I got the windows version coz I am running Vista. Unzipped the content to my C:\Android\ directory.

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