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Whilst not excessively complex, a number of steps are involved in setting up an Android development environment for the Kindle Fire. Having performed those steps, it is worth working through a simple example to make sure the environment is correctly installed and configured. In this chapter, we have created an application and then run it within a Kindle Fire AVD emulation environment. The Eclipse Graphical Layout tool was then used to modify the user interface of the application. In so doing, we explored the importance of using resources wherever possible, particularly in the case of string values, and briefly touched on the topic of layouts. Finally, we looked at the underlying XML that is used to store the user interface designs of Android applications.