The Developer's Info

It is my first working day in this year and I started it with installing Ubuntu Linux 9.10 on my PC.

Why I need this system?
I want to try use it in my development environment. I used Windows XP, not Vista .
First of all I found that emulator instance works slowly than in my Windows machine, but for me it is not very big problem… I think so.
In Linux I found one very good solution for working with SDCard image. In Linux I can use file manager when need to access SDCard and it is very useful. Continue reading Using SDCard image for Android emulator in Ubuntu Linux

Sony-Ericsson published XPERIA X10 addon for Android SDK and I tried to use it in my work.
All details you can find here. Continue reading Using Sony-Ericsson XPERIA X10 add-on for the Android SDK

I found that there is no logcat console in android plugins for NetBeans and IDEA 8.

But when you develop application you need to see exceptions or see simple log. Continue reading Viewing logs and exceptions in Android

It’s important to test your application on different layout orientations and also on different screen sizes.
I am going to show how to change your emulator orientation. Continue reading Changing Android Emulator's orientation

If you have a SDCard which is mounted to the Android emulator then you want to put some files. I will not describe how to do it in Eclipse IDE. I will describe how to do it by command line. For this operation need to use Android Debug Bridge Continue reading Putting files on SDCard in Android

What is the AVD? AVD is an emulator instance with specific configurations. Continue reading Using Android Virtual Devices (AVD's)

If you don’t know how to create SDCard image please refer to Creating SDCard for Android emulator.

This procedure is very simple. Continue reading Emulating SDCard in Android emulator

At this time most of the applications works with data from SDCard. SDCard present in every phone. You need to know how to create it in your environment for testing application or some other stuff.
There are 2 ways how to create SDCard.
Continue reading Creating SDCard for Android emulator