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I would like to use my netbook for Android development, but when I try to run the SDK with Eclipse, nothing loads. Are netbooks generally powerful enough for Android development? Why or why not?
It's hard to see where the line for a netbook is drawn, but i'm do develop on my "netbook", but it does have 3Gig mem, and a dual core proc, so the only netbookish about it, is that it's a small, 12" thing.
The small screen is a bit of a problem sometimes, as a bigger-screen emulator sometimes doesn't really fit.
I'd not readily use something with even less memory, as eclipse, a VM and ofcourse various things like browsers and all, are a bit heavy on the mem.
Concuding: yes, you can develop on a netbook if you stretch the definition a bit. I'd not choose a low-end netbook, choose one with enough mem and you should be aware that a small screen is a limitation.
Possible? Yes.
Fun? No.
Worthwhile? When making any degree of progress right now is preferable until waiting until you are in front of a better machine.
Well, perhaps not what's really meant, but here's a link to a web based app creator for Android.
But I whine enough about having to develop on my "measly" 4 gig mem laptop.
YMMV
I develop on my MSI Wind U100 (with an 1gb of ram) every now and again, and it's perfectly fine for it.
(10" screen 1024x600)
Although I use Eclipse, I don't use the emu.
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With the release of the latest iPhone 6/6+, I have been wondering how the iPhones compete against the competition even with lower RAM. What is the fundamental difference in the OS that lets iOS run on less beefy hardware, especially the RAM?
The fundamental difference is the number of layers between your application and the hardware.
This is pure subtraction, in Android your application is running inside a virtual machine and this kind of abstraction has a lot of downsides, including lower performance, they promise that the ART runtime will improve a lot this situation (http://developer.android.com/preview/api-overview.html#ART).
In iOS, there's no such thing, your application is running directly in the operational system, there's a huge difference also because Apple every year tries to improve low level APIs, a sample I can use is Metal API (https://developer.apple.com/metal/).
Ok iPhone has more Performance then any Android Device because Apple complie the Program Code to machine Code. Androide use java, java will only compile to Bytecode.
In ordenarie Performance test you have factor 20-50 between them. And Java need a JVM with a memory footprint of 70-100 MB.
Next Apple has better optimization on the OS.
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Good Day everyone. I have a laptop that has just 1GB of RAM and I am tying to develop android apps. I would like to know if I can run my apps using this laptop. ALso, what kind of profiles would I create for the Android Virtual Device settings. Thanks, any help would be appreciated.
I would think it will be terribly slow, if you can run it at all. The OS itself consumes a lot of memory and 1GB is pretty low to run your Eclipse or other tools on top of your operating system. I used to have a windows XP Laptop with 3GB RAM. The emulator would be ready after 10 minutes - once I start it!! I am not a big fan of mac, but had to buy a high end mac book to be able to work faster.
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I've a car stereo (Pioneer AppRadio2) that seems to have a ROM tha contains WindowsCE for MIPS.
Would it be possible to run Linux/Andriod on the device by flashing a linux type ROM to the device ?
If it is possible what would be the high level steps that need to be done to achieve this ?
Pioneer does have a mobile developer web site for AppRadio, but it isn't live yet, so it looks like Pioneer won't be an immediate help.
You need to determine if the bootloader is locked by some sort of digital signature or not. If it is digitally signed and locked, you're going to have to either obtain a key from Pioneer or reverse engineer it.
Following that, use an embedded toolkit like OpenEmbedded to create a Linux environment on the device.
That wont be so easy. Actually it is meant to be a control station for android and iphone devices. so you could just use the android kit for your phone and control it from your appradio2 as for now. I know youre radio wouldnt be running the android itself but would display it and control it.
since it is quite new it will take some time for developers to "hack" it if it is possible. i have seen bounties on xda for example from people that would like what you are asking and other things.
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I've been wanting to develop applications for Android for a while now.
I download the ADT Plugin for Eclipse from here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/eclipse-adt.html, and started to develop applications using Eclipse. However, even the simplest Hello World application seems to take a few minutes to run.
I was wondering if there are better environments for Android Development.
Is it possible to develop application using NetBeans or other Java compilers?
Are there faster development tools than the ADT Plugin for Eclipse?
Thanks in advance.
If the application takes a long time to run, check one of two things:
Does your PC meets the requirements of eclipse.
If the application is taking a few minutes to run, it is quite possible that you may be closing the emulator after every debugging. This is unnecessary as the debugger is always listening for eclipse to run.
I do not know if these are possibilities, but I want your Android programming experience to be a good one. Troubleshooting is never useless :)
Yes, it runs slow, but I don't think switching IDEs is going to make it any faster. Such is the nature of Java and other interpreted languages. A faster machine is all that helps. I have noticed things move better once loaded the first time, though.
I'm not sure what exactly is taking a few minutes, but developing with an actual device can hugely lower the waiting time as the emulator is really slow (uploading your app, installing, running and using it).
If you want to use the emulator be sure to not close the emulator window all the time as it will have to boot Android the next time you run your app.
I don't think that you will be more happy with another IDE or something like that, as it will only cause more work and more problems.
If you're working with emulator - do not shut it down. First start is painful, but then it's faster.
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I am searching for the cheapest Android 1.5 device suitable for developing on it. As the emulator is too sluggish for my needs, I want a real device.
Can you recommend any source where to get such an old device? I looked at eBay, but do not know which device to search for. Maybe you can recommend a list of Android 1.5 devices still available?
The HTC Dream/G1 should be the cheapest option. I got mine for 88 bucks shipped from eBay... works perfectly.
Actually, the OS may be Android 1.6 (I can't remember as I eventually installed CyanogenMod) but it shouldn't matter since you can still write and test 1.5 applications on it.
Update: According to the phone's Wikipedia page, the official OS version is 1.6.
The most recent (and probably powerful) 1.5 device was probably the Dell Blaze, but it won't be easy to find. The G2 also came with 1.5.
The G1 and MyTouch are the original android devices, and they shouldn't be too expensive on craigslist or ebay.
Huawei devices are cheaper too, and suitable for development in most cases http://www.huaweidevice.com/worldwide/productFamily.do?method=index&directoryId=2037&treeId=37
pd: check android models :p