Android :: Started Developing For Android Didn't Buy The Device Phone
Aug 14, 2010
I am a newcomer to android development. I created a image puzzle app named "Sexy Image Puzzle" It is a simple jigsaw puzzle. As I have just started developing for android, I didn't buy the dev phone yet. I tested the application in Emulator. I was planning to create similar puzzles for Cars too. But the app has too less downloads so far. Could anyone use this app and let me know, what is going wrong? It is a free application, so there is no payment involved. I just want to know some feedbacks, what is going wrong. This is a small help, I need from you guys, till the time I buy my dev phone (probably starting september)
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Jul 29, 2009
More or less as it says on the tin. Before I even contemplate downloading the SDK, I was wondering if there was any way of testing Android apps that I'd write without an Android phone available to me? I'm unsure as to whether or not the tools that come with the SDK come with an emulator like VS does for Windows Mobile.Sorry if this is a stupid question, but maybe I'm searching for the wrong thing.Edit I don't suppose there's anything that'll let me write widgets on/for an emulated version of the interface HTC use on the Hero/G2 either is there? Not that it would matter that much.
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May 26, 2010
On the documentation page "Developing on a Device" http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/device.html there may be two errors in the section "Setting up a Device for Development."
First: To run (not debug) an app on a device, you do not need to set the "debuggable" attribute in the manifest. The documentation implies this is a requirement. It may be a good idea, but, when stepping an absolute beginner through the process of running their first app, this is an unnecessary detour.
Second: The instructions for turning on USB debugging don't mention the Settings activity: "On the device, go to the home screen, press MENU, select Applications > Development, then enable USB debugging."
The first error is more of a quibble, but the second seems to be actual misinformation that may puzzle a beginner, wondering why there isn't an "Applications" item on the Home app menu. In most cases this should go "Settings > Applications > Development > USB Debugging," and the menu key is not involved.
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Feb 22, 2010
I am developing using Eclipse and MyTouch phone, while i can run the application fine on the
device, i can't seem to set break points for debugging. is there some settings/tools i am missing?
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Jul 5, 2010
I currently have three different phones, a Google ION, HTC Evo and a Droid. I've been receiving reports of weird bugs since 2.1 was released, I'd hoped they'd magically clear with 2.1-update1 but they haven't. The bugs are for specific devices and can't be tested in the emulator. On the Droid, I had a reoccurring loop when the device was started and held horizontally. Didn't happen on any other device. On the HTC Evo and Incredible, odd freezes when the screen was panned. Didn't happen on any other the other devices as far as I can tell.
None of these problems caused a crash or even an error in the log. They just caused the app to act weird. Testing with the physical devices for these bugs is absolutely critical to resolving these issues. I found the Droid problem easily, that one is fixed. The HTC problems still are present but I've managed to mitigate them with some clever programming. Regardless of how things are supposed to work, in the real world, having the actual devices in hand makes life a lot easier. It would be great if the device manufacturers would create some sort of program where we could get our hands on these things without signing up for contracts or paying $500+ for each one. They could be units that didn't pass quality control, scratch and dent models or returns, as long as they worked on WiFi, that would be all that's necessary.
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May 5, 2010
I am looking generally in to Android development.
I keep seeing information on root however I am unclear how this relates to general android app development.
I understand that there is an emulator however when I get to actually test the software on a phone does that phone have to be a rooted device or is this only required if you wish to edit the core features of the os?
Finally are there are any development disadvantages to rooting the device such as that is no longer behaves like other android phones I may deploy too?
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Apr 16, 2010
I want to transfer a face recognition application from PC to android phone. But in the source code of the application, the libs "com.sun.image.codec.jpeg.JPEGCodec" and "com.sun.image.codec.jpeg.JPEGImageEncoder" are contained in JRE and are not supported by android SDK. I tried to add JRE to our build path. Although, I can compile the program without error, the program cannot run on phone and the logcat shows that "Could not find method com.sun.image.codec.jpeg.JPEGCodec.createJPEGDecoder". Does anyone have some suggestions about that?
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Apr 17, 2010
First of all, I just want to say I am a software developer, but I am not an Android developer. However I usually walk around and think on stuff. AndI've been recently thinking all the news concerning how fragmented Android is getting, with different Android versions and tweaks by different phone manufacturers, and then for developers you have different size formats. An example would be that HTC Tattoo might not be able to run everything that another phone might run, due to different screen formats, etc. And now the Android tablets are coming with different Android versions and different screen sizes, all from 5" to 11". Will this make developing Android applications harder? Apple has it safe here since they manufacturer all devices that run the iPhone OS: the pods, phones and now the pad so they can easily control and make sure not to loose any customers by introducing a new device. When Apple introduced iPad they had to make sure that all the old iPhone applications would work on the iPad. They solved that neatly by saying that iPhone applications will simply be stretched out to the double size and it would fit on the iPad. Unfortunately Android does not have the same luxury to do this. As I said, I am not an Android developer. Just a curious software developer For you guys who work actively in the Android community, does Google have a solution for this? Will you be able to run phone applications on the tablets? Is there a bridge between the devices? Are there any standardizations or will Android development become even more fragmented? you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-devel
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Aug 21, 2010
Is there a way to send an SMS from te DDMS in Eclipse to my Android phone. The emulator control is disabled when I'm running my physical phone. I can only sent a SMS to the emulator.
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May 11, 2010
I am having trouble accessing the database while I am developing on the phone. Whenever I execute
cd /data/data/com.mycompck/databases
then if I try to run ls I get opendir failed, Permission denied
Or whenever I type in:
sqlite3 I get sqlite3: permission denied
What I am doing wrong?
Are there some applications that can help me getting a human view of content resolvers values and/or SQLite databases?
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Jun 8, 2010
I've watched many of the Google IO talks and one that I'm trying to reproduce is "Developing Android REST client applications"[1]. In this talk Virgil suggests you should not execute your RESTful queries inside a Thread/AsyncTask spawned from your Activity (which I had been doing), instead you should use a more complex architecture that uses a combination of a ContentProvider and a Service. From what I understood the reason for this design was so your data was more persistent between app restarts, and so your queries don't disappear if your Activity starts/stops (e.g on a screen rotation). I buy into both those reasons hence I'm trying to implement this. On the slides[2] page 45 We have an Activity calling a ContentProvider. Now the ContentProvider checks its local database, if the content is not there it sends an Intent to a service which fetches the content, inserts it into the ContentProvider, then the ContentProvider calls back to the Activity (with a ContentObserver) and the Activity can carry on. The question I have is how is this callback setup. The ContentProvider exposes simple methods, query, insert, update, delete which don't seem easy to adapt to a callback interface. It could be implemented by a Cursor which is designed to block, but that could be problematic as you don't' want to block your UI Thread. I'd appreciate if anyone could make this clearer to me, or show me some code. I'm hoping the Twitter app will be open sourced soon which apparently uses this architecture.
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Feb 17, 2010
Is there any way (e.g. with the command-line) I can upload an APK to an android phone wirelessly (wifi or Bluetooth) and launch it on the phone from a desktop machine?
I can do this things with abd from the command line when a USB cable is attached but I'd like to know if I can do this without having to mess around with cables.
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May 4, 2010
My phone (htc desire) loses connection with HTC Sync, version: 2.0.33 on my laptop when I start eclipse galileo. I have windows 7 32 bit. The followings are what I have done to solve this problem but with no luck:
- Unplug and replug the USB cable.
- Installed the old version of HTC sync
- Uninstalled the old version and installed the newest version of HTC sync.
I've to log off or restart my laptop to be able to connect the phone with htc sync again but when I start eclipse the connection is lost again.
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Sep 8, 2010
I want my application to be started whenever the phone is turned on or restarted.
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Mar 25, 2014
i have this phone (alps e1901 v77 fwvga) aka xtouch x507 (mt6577)
i flashed the original firmware from the supplier but since then the phone didn't boot
it wont charge also, but it's being recognized by pc and i still can flash on it.and i tested the battery its charged, and also there is current drain (~50 mA)when power button is pressed
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Apr 3, 2010
Has anyone managed to develop Android Applications using Eclipse on the Windows platform. I understand the ADB needs to recognise specific models of phone and wondered if the Tattoo is supported.
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Nov 7, 2010
I had notification saying I had to update my phone software. I backed up my settings then plugged my phone to my PC and started the update. Followed every instruction and restored my settings back to my phone. I checked on the ABOUT PHONE in the SETTINGS section and noticed that my phone has not been updated at all. Firmware version is still 1.6. Build Number is 1.2.A.1.174. And to top it off........every time I get a delivery report of my credit balance.......the £ sign has been replaced by a white diamond with a ? sign inside it!
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Jan 3, 2010
First off, im running HC2.1,
1.Dont you have to root to be able to upgrade to a different software type? I rooted before in stalling greek35 2.1, then upgraded to HC2.1, do i have to reroot?
2. Rooting is just, using the update.zip file you download, then using droidroothelp.apk program, mount3, update those 3 things, flash 15.0, rename, reboot ect...so basically as long as you have SU app on your phone your rooted no?
Now boot animation question
I downloaded a boot animation, connected my phone with usb debugging, used the cd command and abd push bootanimation.zip /data/local, rebooted and the boot animation didnt change..after i used the push command, it said x.xkb transfered in 1.23seconds or whatever...any suggestions?
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Nov 22, 2010
For some strange reason my phone has started going into car mode how do I stop/disable this?
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Aug 29, 2010
Just loaded up CyanogenMod6 RC3 last night and since then my phone has frozen twice. I'm on the 2.xx radio not the 2.15. Should I up the radio? Or is the freezing a known issue with CM6?
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Sep 18, 2009
I have rooted my hero and it has been great since loading the Madaco Rom, but I have just noticed the phone has started scrolling right on its own. I noticed this before loading the ROM, but thought it had stopped since, anyone have the same problems and is there anything that I can do? Would loading the new official ROM make it any better than the Madaco ROM?
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Aug 1, 2010
my phone has started running hot. I'm not talking about when I'm charging it, I expect it to get warm while charging, I'm talking about just normal use. It gets very warm, almost hot, back of the phone, above the battery, near the camera lens/sd card/sim card area. Again the battery is cool to the touch if I remove the cover, but the area above the battery is getting really hot, and I noticed when my phone gets hot, the battery life starts to drain like crazy.
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Dec 13, 2009
I just bought a droid yesterday found this site and am so excited about the droid experience..anyways what are some good apps to get me started like home screens, games, task manager etc?
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Oct 19, 2010
My HTC desire started playing an mp3 file last night. It was on a shelf and I was watching tv and the music just came on. Am stumped as to why Any one have any ideas?
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Jul 10, 2010
I was talking to my husband when my Eris started vibrating nonstop! I had to shut my phone off like 3x. My gmail password is right and it still won't sign me in.it take a whole minute to call anyone on my phone list, I miss calls, when I go to answer my phone after two rings it ends call. And last but not least, my assigned ring tones don't play for my contacts, it only plays the default. I have tried everything. I'm wondering if i should take it to Verizon and get a new one.
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Sep 22, 2010
I'm a noob to like all of this so bare with me, I love jailbreaking and rooting stuff, just because I love being in complete control of my device....so thats the main reason why I rooted my samsung moment. I usually gain experience from all of this by looking on youtube tutorials or going to threads, I've never asked or seeked helped personally until now. So my question is what can I do with my phone now? I have an idea of how I would put new roms on my moment but I want to be sure of what I'm doing before I brick my phone from a careless mistake. How to get started on a Rooted phone in a nut shell?
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Jul 17, 2010
Not sure what I did, but on powering up, I had trouble getting it to turn on. Maybe I double pressed the powere button after the power on had started, but as soon as the droid eyeball screen came up, all images on the screen were in negative. This continued through the home screen loading until I turned the phone off and restarted, getting normal colors.
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Feb 12, 2010
I bought a htc hero 3 days ago and it has been working perfectly but yesterday it just started switching on and off by itself nonstop. when it switches on it doesn't go to the home page it just shows the clock and it says no service. ive removed the battery and sim card, connected it to a usb...and none of it works. im gonna bring it back to the shop tomorrow but just wondering if anyone knows anything i can do to be able to use it in the meantime.
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Nov 9, 2009
I got my Droid on Friday, the day it came out. Was working fine. Today, about an hour ago, my droid reset itself. Then started back up. when I got to my home screen, it reset itself. When I got to the home screen again, very shortly (less than 10 seconds) it reset itself again! And repeated this over and over. It never stopped! I can not even use my Droid!
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Nov 21, 2009
I've had my Moment for 2 weeks now and love it. However, this morning I noticed something new. When I press down on the bottom left corner of the screen (home button vicinity) I get a creaking sound. I get the sound pretty much every time I press down on any part of the bottem left 1/4 of the screen. I do not get this sound when the keyboard is pulled out, so it's coming from some play between the phone and the keyboard. My wife has the same phone and does not have this problem. I'm curious to know if anyone else has developed this creaking noise. Anyone getting this sound?
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