Here are a hodgepodge of issues related to using the emulator.
The emulator takes forever to come up
Yes, yes it does, especially the first time you start it. It’s emulating booting up a complete OS running on a different architecture (ARM processor) than your development machine – so yeah, it’s a little slow. If you have [...]
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Emulator frustrations for n00bs
December 23rd, 2009
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Creating your own emulator skins
December 9th, 2009
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One of the first things a software developer does when beginning to work with a new IDE or tool set is to look for ways to customize their environment, either to better fit the way they work or to match their sense of style. For example, I always prefer my code editor to display primarily [...]
My emulator looks different than in the examples!
December 8th, 2009
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Illustrations of emulator usage in books and on the web have emulator skins that look like devices, but if your SDK is at all recent, the emulator doesn’t look like that – the screen is bare. This is a seemingly insignificant thing, but strangely no one seems to talk about it. I didn’t find any [...]
