***OFFICIAL ANDROID DEVELOPMENT THREAD***

[YouR_DooM]

Originally Posted by MikeyObviously

Bumping for selfish reasons...I have just started the process of learning Android programming.

I have some cute ideas to **** around with and build while learning, but my ultimate retire-on-an-island idea:

The Axl Rose Voice Generator. If you beat me to it, congrats on your millions...

Before you become a millionare, remember that you have to file for taxes in every nation your customers are from. Google does ****.

[Boo Radley]

guys,
im trying to learn how to do this creating apps stuff on android
spent about 10 hours today trying to make the 'hello world' app today and its been an utter failure. keep running into different problems. the big problem it appears is i cant create a virtual device nor does the software recognize my phone (samsung siii)
part of the problem is i dont have any real programming experience. i dont know exactly what version of eclipse i need or if it matters. the droid developers tutorial is confusing because it jumps around and makes assumptions that i cant follow.
so, basically, if anybody has experience and wants to help me, i would love for somebody to hold my hand and walk me very very slowly step by step. doesnt have to be all in one day. i mean, can be one step a day or week or whatever.
like, the first thing i need to figure out is what model of eclipse do i need. classic, mobile, java ee, etc, or if it even matters. at the moment i have the adt bundle installed which includes eclipse, but i dont know what version.
i want to smash my computer
please help
please?
lol
but seriously, please?

[Boo Radley]

Originally Posted by thunderchicken

http://marakana.com/techtv/android_b...st_series.html

This completed me.

started watching this hoping it would help.
looks great, except his software doesnt look like mine. his eclipse is different. has different options. plus, i dont know if i have the right eclipse, or if my eclipse is set up right.
****

[muttiah]

Why are you mucking around with Eclipse? You shouldn't need more than notepad to make hello world, even for android. Learn the basics before worrying about the IDE.

[iosys]

Originally Posted by muttiah

Why are you mucking around with Eclipse? You shouldn't need more than notepad to make hello world, even for android. Learn the basics before worrying about the IDE.

Using notepad instead of eclipse would be extremely silly, when you can google or spend 10 minutes looking around eclipse till you understand the basics of it.

[maxtower]

Originally Posted by Boo Radley

guys,
im trying to learn how to do this creating apps stuff on android
spent about 10 hours today trying to make the 'hello world' app today and its been an utter failure. keep running into different problems. the big problem it appears is i cant create a virtual device nor does the software recognize my phone (samsung siii)
part of the problem is i dont have any real programming experience. i dont know exactly what version of eclipse i need or if it matters. the droid developers tutorial is confusing because it jumps around and makes assumptions that i cant follow.
so, basically, if anybody has experience and wants to help me, i would love for somebody to hold my hand and walk me very very slowly step by step. doesnt have to be all in one day. i mean, can be one step a day or week or whatever.
like, the first thing i need to figure out is what model of eclipse do i need. classic, mobile, java ee, etc, or if it even matters. at the moment i have the adt bundle installed which includes eclipse, but i dont know what version.
i want to smash my computer
please help
please?
lol
but seriously, please?

I started here:
http://developer.android.com/trainin...app/index.html

Use the eclipse from here:
http://eclipse.org/mobile/

Follow the ADT instructions here:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/bundle.html

Where do you get lost in the above steps?

[Boo Radley]

Originally Posted by maxtower

I started here:
http://developer.android.com/trainin...app/index.html

Use the eclipse from here:
http://eclipse.org/mobile/

Follow the ADT instructions here:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/bundle.html

Where do you get lost in the above steps?

i tried all different approaches
latest approach was using the android sdk/adt bundle that comes with a version of eclipse. you think the all in one package would work right? everything seems fine until i get to the part where i want to run it on the virtual device. i try to open the virtual device manager and nothing happens.

when i first opened the eclipse, it said it couldnt find the sdk tools folder, so i renamed the folders to what it was looking for (in this case C\adtbundle\adt-bundles-windows\sdk)


im going to uninstall again and start from scratch
if you dont mind, you can hold my hand and go step by step with me?
java is already installed

so youre saying my first step is download and install sdk or eclipse? (following how you did it)
cause the android instruction page (your first link) says download sdk then install adt plugin if im using eclipse (which i am). but should i have installed eclipse first before sdk?
when they say download sdk, do i unpack it and install (and not click run at the end)

i have been through all the different ways to do this. it might not sound like it.
im willing to go very slowly step by step

so, first thing:
download unpack and install eclipse, yes?
download sdk yes?
then unpack yes?
then install yes?
DO NOT CLICK RUN, yes?
then do the adt plug in steps, yes?

thanks for any help

[iosys]

Originally Posted by Boo Radley

i tried all different approaches
latest approach was using the android sdk/adt bundle that comes with a version of eclipse. you think the all in one package would work right? everything seems fine until i get to the part where i want to run it on the virtual device. i try to open the virtual device manager and nothing happens.

when i first opened the eclipse, it said it couldnt find the sdk tools folder, so i renamed the folders to what it was looking for (in this case C\adtbundle\adt-bundles-windows\sdk)


im going to uninstall again and start from scratch
if you dont mind, you can hold my hand and go step by step with me?
java is already installed

so youre saying my first step is download and install sdk or eclipse? (following how you did it)
cause the android instruction page (your first link) says download sdk then install adt plugin if im using eclipse (which i am). but should i have installed eclipse first before sdk?
when they say download sdk, do i unpack it and install (and not click run at the end)

i have been through all the different ways to do this. it might not sound like it.
im willing to go very slowly step by step

so, first thing:
download unpack and install eclipse, yes?
download sdk yes?
then unpack yes?
then install yes?
DO NOT CLICK RUN, yes?
then do the adt plug in steps, yes?

thanks for any help

I'll write what I did when setting up eclipse and all the stuff.

Downloaded eclipse mobile.
Installed eclipse mobile.

Download the android sdk installer for pre installed ide.
Install it.

Open up eclipse and go to Help, Install New Software...
paste "https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/"
Install the Developer Tools.

Now in eclipse go to Window, Android Virtual Device Manager
Click Device Definitions tab and Create AVD...
Type the name and hit, "OK" now test it by selecting it and hitting Start


Everything should work for you, I hope lol

[maxtower]

I already have it installed. Let me know if the above post instructions don't work for you and I'll try to do it again.

[mithras]

Originally Posted by Leroy2DaBeroy

Not sure if this is the right place for it, but I would like to see a hand history replayer/reviewer app. Not sure if its possible to get hem hands into it, but if so, I think people would pay a few bucks for it.

I thought about making this, but doing some reasearch it seems http://www.pokermemento.com/ already does that.

[Boo Radley]

Originally Posted by iosys

I'll write what I did when setting up eclipse and all the stuff.

Downloaded eclipse mobile.
Installed eclipse mobile.

Download the android sdk installer for pre installed ide.
Install it.

Open up eclipse and go to Help, Install New Software...
paste "https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/"
Install the Developer Tools.

Now in eclipse go to Window, Android Virtual Device Manager
Click Device Definitions tab and Create AVD...
Type the name and hit, "OK" now test it by selecting it and hitting Start


Everything should work for you, I hope lol

Originally Posted by maxtower

I already have it installed. Let me know if the above post instructions don't work for you and I'll try to do it again.

i ended up getting it to work.
did another uninstall.
extracted the files to my desktop this time. that seems to be the only difference from what i had done previously.
used the sdk/eclipse/adt bundle from the android page this time (had used it before with no success)

i have since moved the folders off my desktop and repointed the eclipse preferences for sdk tools and everything still works, so thats good.

emulator runs pretty slow though
i bumped up the ram to 800 mib and if i bump it higher, i get an error when starting the emulator, so i keep it at 800

any ideas on how to speed it up?
ram is 800
heap is 1000 (i assume larger heap is better?)
internal is 500mib
sd card 1gib

thanks again