People I have noticed that the emulator runs super fast on a fedora machine. On a Vista machine its HORRID. I guess it will be as fast on any linux distro.
2 cents worth.. Siddharth On Jan 19, 4:22 am, Indicator Veritatis <mej1...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Until when? How long should the user continue to wait before he can > conclude that something really has gone wrong? Remember: he said the > message "waiting for Home android.process.acore" was STILL displaying > on the screen. Can we count on this message to be accurate? > > Sure, I know that the emulator takes a LONG time, even on a fast > machine. But sometimes the launch really does fail, and the user needs > a way to tell. > > My own experience has been: 1) it takes a very long time, and paints > the word 'Android' on the screen in two different fonts 2) sometimes, > but not all the time, I have to unlock the menu 3) sometimes, but not > all the time, execution passes directly to the application, sometimes > I have to launch it myself. > > I don't remember what was displaying in the console window in all > these cases: that is why I ask which messages we can really count on > in that window. > > It seems pretty random which I get in 2 and 3. But computers are > deterministic finite state machines! They are not supposed to do > things like this! > > On Jan 13, 6:17 pm, CT <yeu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > continue waiting ! > > > On Jan 7, 4:22 pm, Jonathan <jonathan.gord...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hey all, so I just completed the hello world tutorial but it won't > > > seem to run. I waited for a long time at the Android screen with the > > > blinking underscore, then finally I moved onto a screen with a fancy > > > font Android and its kinda flashing silver. The console in eclipse > > > still says waiting for Home anroid.process.acore... How long does it > > > usually take to load?? Am I doing something wrong?? Thanks
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