Android SDK on OSX

Skyboat · 3 Jun 2011 at 09:12

Having some problems with this.

I've installed the following:
Android SDK Tools
Android SDK Platform-tools
SDK Platform Android 2.3.3, API 10
SDK Platform Android 2.2, API 8
Samples for SDK API 10
Samples for SDK API 8

As well as Eclipse and the ADT Plugin, and an AVD for each version.

Whenever I make a sample app to test, the emulator just comes up blank with "A N D R O I D _" flashing in the middle of the screen, and nothing works.

Any ideas?

GravyMonster · 3 Jun 2011 at 09:29

Are you giving the emulator enough time to start up? It takes aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages.

The first time you boot it it'll take about 5 minutes to start.

You only need to do this once though. Once it's started you can set it to maintain state on closure so that when you open it next time it's instant. More tips on optimising the emulator here

Skyboat · 3 Jun 2011 at 09:34

Spunkey said:
Are you giving the emulator enough time to start up? It takes aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages.

The first time you boot it it'll take about 5 minutes to start.

You only need to do this once though. Once it's started you can set it to maintain state on closure so that when you open it next time it's instant. More tips on optimising the emulator here

Thanks bud, that worked. Took about 90 seconds or so in the end. Didn't realise I was this impatient!

Not one of the points the docs or tutorials seem to mention though, which is why I got confused.

GravyMonster · 3 Jun 2011 at 09:37

No worries, did the same myself.

Took longer to start the emulator than it did to install Eclipse and the SDK

fez · 3 Jun 2011 at 15:07

Same here, spent an hour or so trying to figure out what was going wrong when there was nothing apparently erroring. Just needed to let it warm up !