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Using SDCard image for Android emulator in Ubuntu Linux

Oleg Mazurashu — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:28:34 +0000

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 . . . → Read More: Using SDCard image for Android emulator in Ubuntu Linux No related posts.

Using Sony-Ericsson XPERIA X10 add-on for the Android SDK

Oleg Mazurashu — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:56:22 +0000

Sony-Ericsson published XPERIA X10 addon for Android SDK and I tried to use it in my work. All details you can find here.Installation is simple. From link which I posted above you can download add-on and Installation guide. But I also want to provide these easy steps:

Download and install Android SDK Download Sony-Ericsson XPERIA . . . → Read More: Using Sony-Ericsson XPERIA X10 add-on for the Android SDK No related posts.

Viewing logs and exceptions in Android

Oleg Mazurashu — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:22:07 +0000

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.

I am going to show how easy is to see all these things in system console. At first you should have installed Android SDK.

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Changing Android Emulator's orientation

Oleg Mazurashu — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:26:23 +0000

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. The solution is next:

Switch to previous layout orientation (for example, portrait, landscape) - KEYPAD_7 or Ctrl-F11 Switch to next layout orientation (for example, portrait, landscape) - KEYPAD_9 . . . → Read More: Changing Android Emulator's orientation No related posts.

Putting files on SDCard in Android

Oleg Mazurashu — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:57:53 +0000

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 This is very simple operation (don’t . . . → Read More: Putting files on SDCard in Android No related posts.

Installing an application on Android emulator

Oleg Mazurashu — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:55:29 +0000

If you work in IDE you don’t install your apk file manually on an emulator. This operation do ADT when you start application.

But sometimes you need to install it manually on an emulator or device instance.

I am going to show how to do this operation from command line. For this need to use . . . → Read More: Installing an application on Android emulator No related posts.

Using Android Virtual Devices (AVD's)

Oleg Mazurashu — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:32:03 +0000

What is the AVD? AVD is an emulator instance with specific configurations.

Creating the AVD Need to enter this command:

android create avd -n <name> -t <targetID>

-n – name of creted AVD -t - target ID, please check allowed targets by entering

android list targets

Select for which target need create AVD

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Emulating SDCard in Android emulator

Oleg Mazurashu — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:11:02 +0000

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

This procedure is very simple.

There are 2 ways. First This command need to run when you have running emulator instance

emulator -sdcard <filepath>

<filepath> is a path to the SDCard image. Example:

emulator -sdcard C:\My.iso

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Creating SDCard for Android emulator

Oleg Mazurashu — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:19:10 +0000

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.

First Android SDK contains tool which called mksdcard. This tool helps . . . → Read More: Creating SDCard for Android emulator No related posts.