One thing to note, is that the m2e - Maven Integration for Eclipse plugin is not automatically installed with the configurator. If you are using STS 2.8.0, then the m2e plugin is already installed. If not, then you can follow the previous steps above to also install the m2e plugin from the Eclipse Marketplace before importing your Android projects.

Android Annotations is a project started and maintained by Pierre-Yves Ricau. Through the use of annotations, the goal of the project is specifically to help reduce the amount of boilerplate code in Android projects. It's not trying to be a general dependency injection framework, and in fact, can work side by side with RoboGuice. There is some overlap, as Android Annotations provides some similar annotations for injecting views and resources, but it offers many other useful features as well. The main differentiator is that Android Annotations generates the boilerplate code at compile time…

In addition to the reference guide, Roy Clarkson has authored two blog posts to help you get started developing Android applications:

In Spring Android and Maven (Part 1), I described how to build an Android application from the command-line using Maven. In this post, I will show you how to build an Android application with Maven dependency management from the Eclipse IDE. The application will also showcase the latest features in Spring Android 1.0.0.M2, which was released this week. The Maven Android Plugin lets you build your Android applications with Maven and benefit from dependency management. Google's Android Development Tools (ADT) plugin allows you to develop and build Android applications within the Eclipse IDE…

To configure the Maven Android and Maven Compiler Plugins in the build task, set the sdk platform to the desired level. In this example it is set to 9, which corresponds to Android version 2.3.1. The emulator avd value is the name of the AVD (Android Virtual Device) you defined in the AVD Manager. In this case, an AVD with the name "9", but the AVD can be named whatever you like, as long as it matches the name you specified when creating the AVD. This is a basic configuration for the plugin that is needed to build and run an Android application. There are additional parameters that can be…