The emulator can be very slow depending on the specs of the machine it's running on. Not bad on my dev pc, it opens and runs my app in less than a minute.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tiago Becker Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 4:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [android-beginners] Re: problems getting started On my pc, it took really a looong time to move from the "android" screen to the home screen on the emulator, the first time i tried (i did kill the process 3 or 4 times before letting it run for like 10 mins) My guess is that your program is ok, its just the emulator that is slow as hell.... On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Roman ( T-Mobile USA)<[email protected]> wrote: > > When you create your first Android application you normally have not > to do anything besides creating an Android project. The Eclipse ADT is > going to create all the needed resources for you. > > Check the following > > > - Your Eclipse: > for example > Version: 3.4.1 > Build id: M20080911-1700 > > - the Problems-tab in Eclipse editor > - make sure that ADT is correctly installed > -- > Roman Baumgaertner > Sr. SW Engineer-OSDC > ·T· · ·Mobile· stick together > The views, opinions and statements in this email are those of the > author solely in their individual capacity, and do not necessarily > represent those of T-Mobile USA, Inc. > > On Sep 3, 8:49 am, leeuwerik <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm brand new to Android (although not to Eclipse and Java). >> Yesterday I installed ADT within Eclipse (always latest versions) >> both on Windows and XP. >> Then I try creating HelloWorld by following the tutorial. >> >> When creatin the android project I get an error on the line >> setContentView(R.layout.main) ==> R unknown. >> >> I tried ctr-shift-O ==> import android.R is added but the error >> remains. >> >> Undaunted I follow the tuturial and edit to create a TextView instead >> ==> application runs, i.e. I see a mobile terminal image with >> 'ANDROID' written in the centre. On XP it's strange: after a >> seemingly long time-out the text font changes and an icon (android) >> is added after the text. >> >> Next I try editing the resource .xml files as suggested in the >> tutorial in order to change the text. This also implies reintroducing >> the line with setContentView(R.layout.main) in lieu of the TextView. >> This time no error reported !!!! >> >> When inspecting main.xml, the new layout and text look OK. Yet when >> running the application I keep getting the same mobile picture, i.e. >> without the new text. It looks like the emulation doesn't work >> properly. >> I rebuilt the application from scratch and did another tutorial, with >> the same negative result. >> >> I must say that I'm lost. >> Can anyone help please ???? > > > No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.13.71/2332 - Release Date: 9/3/2009 6:05 PM --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
