Watch a video on Developing Android Applications!!

This evening I explored a variety of emulators.  So far the fastest (hey, 2.2 –API 8 flavor) to load and develop from is the Galaxy Tab from Samsung, though I haven’t loaded the latest HTC’s

If Tab is your style then add the following URL under Tools | Manage Add-on Sites

http://innovator.samsungmobile.com/android/repository/srepository.xml

Go to Packages and hit the Reload option and you’ll see the add on in the location in the screen shot below…

Create your new  Galaxy Tab in the AVD (select the new Target type that was added in the previous step)

And you should get your new emulator looking like this!!

Not sure why I can only get an emulator to run for a couple days before I have to kill it in AVD manager and create a new one.  As soon as I blow it away I’m able to create a new one that will last a few days, but after that it’s toast!

Trying to map it to an action that I’m doing but all the emulators are really slow… on my 64 bit Windows machine.

Ok, I finally waited long enough for the emulator to boot up and got my application running (the C to F temperature converter), but it seems like the AVDs (Android Virtual Devices) aren’t very stable.  Like each time I stop debugging I have to create a new one.  Is this some kind of conspiracy against 64bit windows or me just missing the most basic of steps?

Tomorrow, I’m going to look at packaging my application with my own graphics instead of the standard package ones!  Check back on this blog to find out how it goes!

Yes, for the first time I experienced my Eclipse development environment crash.  It wasn’t very graceful as the entire screen was locked and had a white transparent background over it and finally spewed forth the following error message:

I’m guessing that to some rocket science geek this means something, but to me it’s just one more impediment to Android application development!

Took a little more of a manual install than Visual Studio, and what should I expect since I’m sure this will run on any computer ever made… probably going to be some steps that just can’t be automated??

As a long time Microsoft Developer, I’ve dabbled in Java/Websphere development but only at work and nothing too complicated (think connecting and writing web services).  Now all of a sudden I want to write Android apps and I installed on my machine at home.  The world may never be the same!