Just the other day, I was griping about the way Eclipse ADT tools dump out XML in long unreadable lines like this:
As with so many things, Eclipse is your friend if you just know how to set it up. As it turns out, Artem Russakovskii of Beer Planet recently wrote an excellent post with instructions [...]
Archive for the ‘SDK level 2.0.1’ Category
Editing XML resources for Android in Eclipse
December 30th, 2009
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Emulator frustrations for n00bs
December 23rd, 2009
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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 [...]
What’s with the various API levels and types in the SDK?
December 22nd, 2009
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(As of SDK 2.0.1)
The API levels 1.0 through 2.0.1 are versions of the framework with which you develop Android applications (see http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/api-levels.html for more). They’re fairly backward compatible but not completely. These are also referred to by integer API numbers and sometimes names:
1 = version 1.0
2 = version 1.1
3 = version 1.5 (Cupcake)
4 = version [...]
The Eclipse ADT plugin for creating projects says I need to choose a target, but there’s nowhere to choose a target!
December 14th, 2009
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This was a particularly frustrating one, but it’s really simple to resolve.
This is a simple problem of screen real estate. When the dialog is not long enough vertically, the part that is shrunk (down to nothing!) to fit is the Build Target selection box. The only way to get it to show up is to [...]
