Posts tagged AVD
Try Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in Virtualbox for a lag-free experience
Dec 10th
I have earlier made a post on how to try out Android 4.0 through the AVD manager, it works, but its rather slow. So I figured I would test the Android-x86 project now that they a couple of hours ago released an Android 4.0 image.
This article will guide you through the setup of Android 4.0 in virtualbox. It will work a lot smoother than through the AVD.
There are a couple of steps in this guide, but they are straightforward and easy to follow.
How to try out Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich!
Oct 19th
A couple or hours ago, the Galaxy Nexus was announced, along with Android 4.0.
At the same time, the Android 4.0 SDK was released into the wild. 
Here I will show you how to already get it up and running, so you can try it out, and start developing/adapting your Android apps for ICS. It will give you a nice “hands on” feeling for ICS 
The steps in this post is quite similar to the post I wrote earlier about trying out Honeycomb.
If you want a faster working solution, but for the time being without internet connection, you can check out my post on how to install Android 4.0 in virtualbox. More >
Some useful Android Emulator Tips And Tricks
Jan 27th
Heres some of the things I find quite useful when working on my apps:
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Emulated Device Key |
Keyboard Key |
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Switch to previous layout orientation (for example, portrait, landscape) |
Ctrl-F11 |
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Switch to next layout orientation (for example, portrait, landscape) |
Ctrl-F12 |
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Home |
HOME |
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Toggle cell networking on/off |
F8 |
- You can for example use you localhost to test different things.
- You can also set delay and speed settings for your device, to simulate slow networks.
- You can simulate the use of GPS, send SMS and more.
I recommend taking a look at the article if you haven’t already, it might save you some time and frustration
How to try out Android 3.0 – Honeycomb!
Jan 27th
Earlier, I wrote a post on how you can try out the new Android Gingerbread (2.3), and now its Honeycombs turn!
This process is very similar to the one regarding the Gingerbread, so I suggest you skim through that post.
You can read more about whats new in Honeycom here. And here is more about the Honeycomb preview SDK itself.
First, we need to open our Android SDK and AVD manager, and install the new Honeycomb packages:
1. Go to Available packages and Select Android SDK Tools and SDK platform Android Honeycomb Preview.
2. When they are downloaded and finished installing, restart your SDK and AVD Manager.
3. Go to Available devices and hit New to create the new AVD for Honeycomb.
4. Give your AVD a nice name, and select Honeycomb (3.0) from the dropdown list. Hit Create AVD.
5. Now select your AVD, and hit start.
Note: It takes some time to start the AVD, and for me, it was a very slow experience navigating around, but it gives a nice introduction to honeycomb.
I took some screenshots from my AVD:
Note: If you are using Eclipse, there is also a new update to the Eclipse ADT (version 9.0.0), so you should update. It seems they have fixed the XML formatting.
My AVD device started up in a horizontal orientation, if yours do that too, you can easily change the orientation of your Emulated device.
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How to try out the new Android 2.3 – Gingerbread!
Dec 6th
Gingerbread comes with lots of new nice features and improvements, you can read about them here. Or you can watch the official video, to get a quick overview:
Altough testing the OS in an AVD, does not compare to the real device in terms of speed and awesomeness, It is the closest you can get right now.
Getting Android 2.3 up and running on your computer is an easy task, I previously created a very simple-to-follow tutorial how to get started with Android development. Installing Android 2.3 is much the same thing, so I assume you are coming from that guide, or already has a development environment set up.
Here is what we need to do:
Getting Started With Android – Setting Up The Development Environment
Nov 26th
The reason for using Eclipse is because there exists an Android development plug-in for Eclipse, which makes things easier for us developers. Also, Eclipse is a good and Open Source IDE. Eclipse can also be used for other languages such as PHP, C++ and Ruby, it also has a very good Subversion plug-in for using repositories.
Developing Android applications, and using these tools described here, does not cost you anything.