Anyone here use the android emulator?

[Energize]

Does anyone find googles android emulator incredibly slow? I've found it easier just to buy an Android phone and run the application I'm developing on that.

 

[GravyMonster]

It's really really slow to start up. When it's running it's not too bad though.

 

[PaulStat]

Yes just started, very slow indeed to start. What's the best way to test apps with this? Run the emulator and then choose run in Eclipse every time you make a change, or close the emulator every time?

 

[Energize]

Assuming that you can get it to run without it going into an endless startup loop, ie once in a blue moon, you're just supposed to run the application from eclipse when you make changes.

I think I'm just going to give up with this and use the dev phone instead.

 

[Energize]

Does anyone know why I only get audio playback here? I'm not used to dealing with all this xml nonsense in java.

package video.VideoRater;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.view.SurfaceView;
import android.widget.*;
import android.media.MediaPlayer;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class VideoRater extends Activity {

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        SurfaceView sf = new SurfaceView(this);
        setContentView(sf);
        
        MediaPlayer mp = MediaPlayer.create(getApplicationContext(), R.raw.video1);
        mp.start();
    }
}

 

[Energize]

I've reworked it and now it just says "video can't be played". Programming in assembly language is easier than trying to develop for this pos.

 

[smeg9]

I'd look at using the VideoView control, rather than using a SurfaceView, and attaching the MediaPlayer - that worked out better for me, I could only get Audio with the MediaPlayer - but when I used the VideoView, it played first time,