I want to get into trying my hand at Android software development. What is the developer phone in terms of ease of development, debugging features etc. that's out there? It should also be a good phone too, as I'd want to use it as my primary phone.
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I have an HTC dev phone but from what I can see on the HTC dev site (http://developer.htc.com/adp.html#overview) the latest version they list for flashing is 1.6. Anyone has any experience with these phones and whether a later (2.1 or 2.2) image can be found and flashed on them?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've been developing applications for a long time now, but now I want to jump into Phone applications development. There are four main candidates:
Nokia's Symbian
Apple's iPhone
Google's Android
Microsoft Windows Mobile Phone
considering documentation, market, samples and availabilty of emulators, I'm not a millionaire so I can't buy it unless I know it would mean profits!
I don't have much preferences as for languages, but to stay within C# would be nice, however I've been thru Assembler for a long time, so it's hard to scare me.
I am writing an application that initially will be developed as web (probably Silverlight) and Android application. I found on Android website that SQLite is supported, but I plan to release the same app for Windows Mobile, Palm Web OS and iPhone as well.Could you please advice me on which database would be the best to work with for all platforms?EDIT:Maybe I should add that I would want all applications (mobile/desktop) to connect to a main server when internet connection is detected and synchronize all data that's changed.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm wondering if there is something like 9-patch in Android, but for web development? Disclosure: I have no idea about web development at all, but I was curious to know if it exists. And a simple web search with the term 9-patch didn't bring up any related results, so I figured it has either another term or it doesn't exist or is not used widely enough.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI would like to start doing some Android development, and would like a cheap device to deploy apps to, just for testing and demo purposes. Is it possible to deploy apps to, for instance, an Archos 28? I don't know much about Android development yet, and haven't found a good answer to this question elsewhere.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've been using my G1 under Windows 7 64-bit and Eclipse just fine.
However, when using my new Nexus One instead - and making sure that 'Use Debugging' is enabled - the Nexus One is not recognized and debugging on this phone is not possible.
Usig the Nexus One as a removable-drive (by mounting it) works fine.
How can I start using the Nexus one as a development device (on Eclipse)?
I'm just getting started with Android app development on a Mac, and I keep getting a NullPointerException everytime I go into Strings.xml to edit it. Here's the steps I followed - The project compiles and runs fine, but if I add even a single character to Strings.xml, a popup comes up that says - "An error has occured. Please see the log for details. An error has occured. Please see the log for details." When I click details, all I see is - "An error has occurred. See error log for more details. java.lang.NullPointerException" Anything I'm missing completely? Code...
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm a mobile media product developer at a major media company in New York City, and we are looking for a vendor with experience in Android, web apps, and mobile in general. I understand Android is new, but if you've got something out there to see already, that would really help. Please reply with a brief description of your Android experience and a link or a word about yourself and your company.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI will have to develop some android applications. Witch mobile phone is better for application development :
Google Nexus One / Htc Droid Incredible / Htc Evo 4G / Motorola Droid ?I have to develop on Android 2.1 and 2.2. All those devices will have the update I think.
I've been trying to order an Android development phone. It has not been available for ordering. Does anyone know if there are ways to expedite it?
View 2 Replies View RelatedCan I use any Android Phone for app development? Here in the Philippines, there are many available mobile phones with Android installed. But I want to buy the cheapest phone available (which I think is Samsung i5500 Galaxy 5).
View 6 Replies View RelatedI know many developers ask about the best Android phone for development, but my question is almost opposite: What is the least expensive Android phone that I can get away with TTS (text-to-speech) and ASR (automated-speech-recognition) software development?
To further clarify my question:
Do all Android phones support
TTS and ASR?
Do all Android OS versions
support TTS and ASR?
If the answer to either of the above
is 'No', then which brand/model will
provide me with TTS and ASR functionality
while minimizing out-of-pocket
expense?
I am an iPhone user but looking into developing android apps. As a web developer I feel apps are something I need to be involved in. My next step is to purchase an android power mobile for testing etc... My budget is low as I will be buying this phone aswel as my current iPhone contract so a max of 20/mo for a contract phone (my gt will use the phone and messages etc...) What budget android is best for development?
I have been offered the samsung galaxy portal and the HTC wildfire for 20/month on '3'.
I've been told to go with htc as it was deeloped for android rather than samsungs phone which just has android on it.
From an app developers point of view, what phone shall I choose?
What android phone would you recommend for development purposes? Not to use as a main phone.
View 3 Replies View RelatedHas anyone else noticed this? It's slightly annoying. I downloaded my version of 1.5 from
https://android.clients.google.com/updates/partner/signed-kila-ota-14...
I've studied several Android books in 2009 and have fiddled with SDK 1.0 with a couple of test projects; then I moved to another side project with different technologies and I have not followed the updates of the SDK in term of cool new features. Do you mind to give a brief recap of what I've missed since SDK 1.0?
View 1 Replies View Related1- I am an iphone application developer, all iphones have very similar Operating systems, and the size and everything is the same, so I don't need to create applications specific for each iphone.
But with android there are different phones, different sizes, So How can i possibly know that my app works, and looks fine on all these devices
2- I don't already own an android but i completed my first application using the simulator. Which android phone do u suggest for testing? I am an AT&T user and i use an iphone. Can i simply insert my sim-card in the new android to be able to test my app on the device?
With the latest SDK release, and the ability to download separate platforms releases into the SDK, the hardware resources required to develop for Android have increased significantly. Assuming that the developer targets all currently available seven platforms - that could take your dev machine to its knees. Taken alone the 'Android SDK Content Loader' takes nearly two minutes on a dual-core machine with 2GB memory.
As the title suggest the reason for creating this wiki is for everyone to list their development hardware configurations, and thus determine what is a well-suited machine for Android development.
The secondary reason for the wiki is that I'm trying to get my employer to provide me with a decent machine for development as I'm currently forced to work on a nearly 4 year old randomly-built machine, and expected to deliver great results. However, the reality is that my system keeps running out of memory, and I can hardly get a chance to write a few lines of code in between the numerous crashes.
Is Ubunto 9.04 compatible with development in Android? Before i ugrade, deploy on device was normal. Now, using 9.04, doesn't recognize it using "adb devices". This below is already set on my ubuntu: 1. Login as root and create this file: /etc/udev/rules.d/50- android. rules.
For Gusty/Hardy, edit the file to read: SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0bb4", MODE="0666"
For Dapper, edit the file to read: SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0bb4", MODE="0666" 2. Now execute: chmod a+rx /etc/udev/rules.d/50-android.rules
I'm trying to develop on android's platform. I'm working with netbeans and using this tutorial: Introducing Android Development with NetBeans. I seem to have everything installed properly, and have no trouble creating android projects,Does anyone know what might be causing this or how I could fix it?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've just started with android development and updating the UI is really bugging me :/
This is what I've got working so far -
CODE:...........
It works fine but everybody says that doing your graphics in the main thread, so I'm trying (and failing) to pass it off to another thread. Trouble is, I have absolutely no idea how since really I've never used Threads.
The examples that Google gives on using Threads doesn't seem to be very clear and I couldn't really follow it for what I want to do. Could I ask somebody out here to give me the most basic example of how I could do what I'm doing here efficiently using Threads?
I'm just about done with development and emulator testing and I'm unclear how to proceed with getting my application ready for actual device testing and them publishing.
Here's my main concern: I have around 600 images that I will need to have loaded (on initial installation) onto an sd card. What is the best way to do this? HTTP? Is there an automated process? Is this handled by an installation script.
Are there documents that cover this type of scenario?
When it comes time for actual publishing the application, again, how will I handle loading the images onto the sd card during the initial installation?
Has anyone tried to develop an android app on windows 7? It says that it isn't a supported OS, but sometimes that doesn't stop people from trying to develop on it anyways.
View 7 Replies View RelatedLooking to do iphone, android, and possibly windows phone development on a Mac Pro. What are the pluses and minuses of using a Mac Pro and a dual boot. Unlike most, Windows 7 will be the primary OS since most supporting software will be done with Visual Studio 08/10 over the next year. I have found driver issues from a few years ago. Do any of these issues still exist?
View 1 Replies View RelatedCan anyone describe a good vim setup for Android Development? I'm using Eclipse for now but I would really like to use vim because it's faster and I like it better. I'm not interested in Eclim for example.
I'm interested in what vim plugins are used (for java, autocomplete etc.), how the vimrc looks like and how the whole process of building/running applications works (as efficient as possible).
Does anybody know of an IRC app that's in development for android?
View 3 Replies View RelatedIs it true that ANY Android phone can be used for App development and testing? I'm trying to find some inexpensive off-contract hardware for development and testing of our Apps. I've found some devices I can buy New with No Contract for $150 to $300 (like the HTC Aria or the Huawei Ascend). Is there anything that would prevent me from using these devices for USB debugging and app testing? I guess I'm concerned because I've read how the HTC Aria has been locked down by AT&T to limit applications. I suspect this won't affect me loading apps using ADB, but I'd like to be sure.
View 2 Replies View RelatedThe first thing described in the howto (http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/scala-ide/Developing_for_Android) is this:
Step 1: Create the ant files for your project:
cd
android update project --target 1 --path .
which yields 'command not found'. I'm in the 'workspace/name_of_my_app/' folder.
How do i get to have the 'android' command?
I want to know which Eclipse IDE to use for android development.
The following url http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ shows a lot of option.
Right now i am using Mac OS X v 10.6.4.