So I think the way to setup everything and to be able to develop and run an app are not friendly user at all.
Just last week, I met a guy who is interested in Android. He downloaded the ADT plugin with eclipse. Everything looks good, he created a new application based on the "blank activity". Then he hit run and boom error... How to demotive new people to start coding app for Android...
I think I had a similar problem with a "fullscreen activity".
Anyway, here are the list of steps that I should remember when changing VM:
- if it's a 64-bit VM, don't forget that Android architecture is
ARM 32-bits, so you should install
32-bits libraries!
sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libstdc++6:i386
sudo apt-get install lib32z1
- you will need
Java:
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk
- Setting up a Device for Development
http://developer.android.com/tools/device.html
sudo vi /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules
#Samsung
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="04e8", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev"
#Google
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="18d1", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev"
#ASUS
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="0b05", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev"
#LG
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="1104", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev"
sudo chmod a+r /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules
For VirtualBox:
- install the
Guest Additions
- add a shared folder so it's easy to copy from file between host and guest
- add your user to the group
vboxsf to be able to access the share folder:
sudo usermod -a -G vboxsf alex
- in the VB settings of the VM, go to USB and add your device! So the VM will capture the device.
- install
GIT
sudo apt-get install git
You can install
Eclipse IDE with built-in
ADT
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
And go to: Window-> Preferences -> Android -> DDMS -> ADB Connection Timeout (ms)
And set it to 10000 (if you leave it to 5000, you may see some timeout)
