Android Programming and Testing with ADT

It's been a while I dared to take a look at Android application development using Eclipse. I'm certainly surprised about the high quality tutorials and documentation. It is fun to learn, with the right tools, of course. Also, the developer community hasn't left out the vital testing perspective, delivering automatic test project setup, JUnit extensions (even mocks!). If you want to make your first steps with Android application development and learn how to test it right from the start, I recommend to take the following steps supposing you have some experience with Java, Eclipse and, of course, unit testing:

1. Download the Android ADT Bundle here.
2. Follow the steps for setting it up here.
3. Complete the tutorial Building your First App. I recommend using a real device, not only for performance but it feels great ;-) In case you're working on Linux, you'll probably have to add a rule for udev. This is well documented and can be found at the tutorial. Tip: find your vendorId using lsusb and use MSC as the transfer protocol.
4. Skim through Managing Projects from Eclipse with ADT, Building and Running from Eclipse and Testing Fundamentals, the latter being a fascinating read by itself for testing developers (and suffering testers in automation).
5. Make sure you have the Samples for SDK. If you don't you will download them using Android SDK Manager as described here.
6. Skip the Testing from Eclipse with ADT, and dive directly into Activity Testing Tutorial.

This is a good starting point and fun to do :-)