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AHarvey

AHarvey

AHarvey

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Hey,

I've been doing a little bit of Python programming but had some ideas for app's that i'd like to launch for android (then maybe others) so I've borrowed a friends Head First Android Development book.

It's a little out of date but their books are normally pretty good.

I've always struggled setting up programming environments etc but think I've got Eclipse and the SDK set up. I've followed the "hello world!" noob tutorial everyone book starts with and went to launch it and OMG, is it supposed to take several minutes to load the emulator?

My PC isn't the fastest (amd 64 x2 4400+ & 2gb ram) but it's never had any real issues until now. Have I set something up incorrectly or is it just slow anyway?

Also, anyone else any good links that are worth a read on the matter?
 
I'm a massive noob with android developing as well, but when I launched my "hello world!" app, I had my phone plugged in and it launched the app on my phone :p Didn't realise at the time.
 
The emulator is incredibly slow to do a full boot. In the VDM settings you can enable "snapshot" and it loads much faster from the previous saved system state.

Although I generally test on my connected phone/tablet and only use the emulator to test other API levels.
 
The Android emulator is extremely slow, even on my computer with a 2500K, 8GB RAM, Force 3 SSD and 6950 Toxic. Windows 8 and Ubuntu actually run faster in VirtualBox then the Android emulator.
 
Thanks for the feedback, I've a Note, a GS2 and a G1 in the house so I can try getting those to work.

S2 might have issues because, for lack of a better word its fubar'd but the note and G1 should work fine :)

Any decent resources out there beside google's own docs?
 
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